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Quote from: A Layman on November 21, 2008, 11:20:56 PM
Perfectly done! Given a, b, c and n real, would you believe that the roots of any equation of nth exponential order can be solved using Newton-Raphson method theory of convergence? Try using this general formula shown in (1), in solving the root of the equation

f(x)=x³+x-1=0

x_n+1=x_n-f(x_n)/f'(x_n)      (1)

Newton Raphson method. Sir Layman, you bring me back to my Calculus class of the past, lol!

My respects to you and Sir Daray. The mathematicians of Tubag Bohol.

This season always makes the heart fond. My heart weeps for you, Angie.

(big hug)

kuyawa uy. fried bahaw rice with piniritng buwad! did you have it with suka, too, Sir Layman?

Gutom na ko!

A little over a month from now, we will be celebrating the birth of Our Lord.

Let us ponder the Love of His Father in Heaven. Who has sent His only Son to satisfy our sins.

Quote from: hofelina on November 21, 2008, 05:46:31 AM
Unsa man diay ang imong na-studyhan Ondoy?  Morag high falutin gajud, ang akong gamay nga otok dili makapanukad sa kalawom  sa imong mga theory or what?
This is a challenge anyway and hope to understand the sense of your postings.

ps
I´m not a deep thinker. Just an old woman.
Manay Tess

Tita Tess, the Peace and Love of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
I am inspired by your post.

Deep rivers run quiet

Raquel,

It is inspiringly beautiful to know that there are faithful people like you who are reconnecting with our Catholic Tradition, which has been constant for over 2 thousand years. The Holy Spirit is in you, my friend, continue to share your faith and your vigor to your children and your friends.

We are all instruments of the Lord. Even if we are not called into Holy Ministry of Royal Nunhood and Priesthood, we can still continue our duties as Laymen and Laywomen.

I haven't attended a Tridentine Latin Mass, yet. Though I want to. One of these days I'd like to though.

It was Latin that was used by Apostle Peter to spread the Word of God to conquer and evangelize Rome. And it was the language of Latin that spread Christianity in all corners of the World.

Angie,

Coffee is good. Ever try French Vanilla? mmm!
French Vanilla Coffee with muffin and eggs are great for breakfast. haha.

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on November 23, 2008, 02:58:31 AM
I love wathing americas funniest video.One thing I notice if I laugh so hard I find myself gasping for breath.Magsakit man akong dughan magsegi ko katawa.I am healthy person had EKG everythings fine but why in the world if I laugh magsakit man gyud ako dughan ug maglisod ko ginhawa.

Raquel,

If you have a cardiovascular problem or a family history of it, this is always a red flag.

To answer your question, the reason for chest pains while laughing too hard is because when you laugh, you are using your thorax. When you laugh, you are using both inspiration and expieration. And to assist this action, the external intercostal muscles, the inner intercostal muscles, the innermost intercostal muscles, the rectus abdominis, the transversus abdominis, the obliques, the scalene muscles, the diaphragm, and your rib cage is being used. You are using these muscles spasmodically and thus can cause pain if you have a history of osteogenic problems or muscular problems.

Another explanation for chest pain or difficulty breathing, is because when you laugh, you are taking in air, and are therefore using bronchodilatory as well as bronchoconstrictory actions. Any damage or weakness in the treacheoesophageal junction can be a reason for such problems.

If you are continuously having such problems, and if this is a history already, I really recommend you tell your family physician and ask his recommendation as he would have a better idea and provide a better prognosis/diagnosis.

If not, then ask him to give you a pulmological-cardiac consult.


Truly,

It is in suffering that we show our true colors and our need of God.

Suffering, lowliness and humility, is what bridges us to God. It is when pride is removed, remove pride, and you remove the obstacle that disconnects God and Man.

Job was tested in suffering, yet his faith was unwavering. David was tested, and his faith was strong. Even Abraham was tested and humbled, and it was in his lowliness and suffering that the Love of God was made perfect in him.

Staying true to faith and to God even in the most desperate times is when we are most beautiful. We remember our places, our linkage with Almighty Providence, who is provides the umbilical cord to our lives.

We suffer because we sin. We sin because of the fall of Man in Eden.

It will continue till our death. And death, in itself, is the ultimate form of suffering. Yet, in faith, we believe in a resurrection, that will conquer the pain of sin and death.

And that, is in Christ Jesus.

Eventually, when the Eastern Catholic Rite is fully augmented into the Body of Christ, these extrajudiciary rights for Eastern Catholics to marry will eventually abate.

You are arguing with extramedullary examples, Glacier, though I credit you.

There was a great schism between the Western and Universal Roman Catholic Church with the Primacy of the East in such a way that was influenced by the Imperial disposition of Constantinople to monopolize Imperial Authority and Imperial Religion.

It was pride, ultimately, of the Eastern Roman Empire (Constantinole) that forgoed its oaths to the early church fathers, and its apostacy from the Roman Catholic Church. It branched from the true church teachings. History has not judged Constantinople favorably. As it was conquored the Muslim Turks in 1451, and its Primacy was moved continuously, moving to Bulgaria, then to Kiev in Ukraine, then even to Moscow Russia. There is no singular religious body in Eastern Orthodoxy, after its schism with Rome. Simply because the East dropped its recognition of Apostolic Primacy, that was in the Pope.

The presence of 'Eastern Catholics' and or 'Greek Catholics' is a recent phenomenon, that we see, which is an attempt of the East to reunify and re-integrate with the Western Roman Catholic Church.

Additionally, there are extradordinary clauses for Eastern Catholic Priests because Eastern Orthodox priests are allowed to marry. The main difference here is that eastern orthodox does not recognize the primacy of the Holy Father, the Pope of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

So, what we see, in the development of 'Eastern Catholicism' is the mingling of Eastern Orthodox tradition with Catholic Tradition.

It is a recent phenomenon that has occured, Thank the Lord Jesus Christ, that has allowed the development of reunification between Catholics and Orthodox.

Traditionally, and gospel-wise, Catholic teachings are similar to Orthodoxy.

Pragmatics, my dear, it was pragmatics that led to the schism.

Praise be to God Almighty in Heaven, that there is unison in His Church and bridging of brothers.

It amazes me, it overwhelms me, to know, as a medical student studying medicine in the 21st century, that the mind of Apostle Paul, who spoke and preached to the Thessalonians some 2 thousand years ago, was already provided the wisdom of human anatomy, and physiology and embryology.

When he said in 1Cor 12:18, "God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose." he has already defined the anatomical design of development during the embryological period. He mentions again that "god composed the body, giving the greater honour to the inferior part, that there may be no discord in the body."

This correlates with the evolution of the ectoderm into the neuroectoderm, into the mesoderm, the splanchnic mesoderm, the protmesoderm, the endoderm. Which develops into diaphragmatic recesses, then into large organs, then into smaller organs. Yet all in sync with one another. We see this as how the stomach develops and the small intestines develop (from which the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum develop) and from that the liver, and from the liver the kidneys, the gall bladder, then the bile duct etc.

Organized in such a way that was already predisposed. One springing forth from the other.

The imprint of Divine Providence is MANIFEST!

Truly, the Holy Spirit was with Apostle Paul in his ministry.

Glory Glory and Glory to the Lord. Unending praise, from eternal age to age.

Quote from: glacier_71 on November 23, 2008, 02:11:36 AM
do you know that in America (incl. Canada), some priests of Anglican Church, who are married and with children, moved to Catholic Church (with their wife and kids)? although this situation faces some degree of grievances among Catholic clergy, maybe raises eyebrows among some conservative parishioners and poses some issues to Rome, these ex-Anglican priests serve or minister the people no any lesser than the Catholic clergy. Wives and children are not masters; they are partners. We are not dealing here with doctrine, but ministry.

Christ Jesus did not marry. The Saviour did not marry. A priest, who is made in the image of Christ, upon entering the Royal Priesthood, is enrobed by the Holy Spirit. As Christ Jesus was the Sheppard, so too, is the priest.

He teaches, as Christ does. He forgives in the Name of Christ, He baptizes in the Name of Christ, He absolves in the Name of Christ. He provides in the Name of Christ. He prepares the Body and Blood of Christ, as Christ did when he was in Earth, in bodily form.

We are dealing with complete adoration of Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus, did not marry, nor did Saint John the Baptist. Nor did Apostle Paul.

Quote from: glacier_71 on November 23, 2008, 02:11:36 AM
do you know that in America (incl. Canada), some priests of Anglican Church, who are married and with children, moved to Catholic Church (with their wife and kids)? although this situation faces some degree of grievances among Catholic clergy, maybe raises eyebrows among some conservative parishioners and poses some issues to Rome, these ex-Anglican priests serve or minister the people no any lesser than the Catholic clergy. Wives and children are not masters; they are partners. We are not dealing here with doctrine, but ministry.

We are dealing with both doctrine and ministry. As ministry affects doctrine, and vice versa.

To preach the Word of God, completely and unabated, one must focus fully on Christ. Mind and Body.

This is manifest in the Holy Roman Catholic Church. The anointed Church of Jesus Christ. The very rock the he had established in Apostle Peter.

One cannot serve two masters.

Leading Wesley’s bariatric surgery team is Ian Villanueva, M.D., the first fellowship-trained bariatric surgeon in Wichita. A Chicago native, Dr. Villanueva graduated from the University of Texasâ€"Houston Medical School, completed his general surgery residency training at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, and a fellowship in laparoscopic bariatric and advanced gastrointestinal surgery at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

I concur. Laughter is good medicine. It releases stress, which is a cause of hyperenzymatic activity.

Laugh more. Live Longer.

If what you say is true, then let us hope and stand true. It is in my deepest hope that the situation in the Philippines will improve, for the benefit of the 100 Million that live within the Republic.

Hope.

Quote from: Angie Gulle on March 09, 2008, 06:07:45 AM
Use deduct, defence, defeat and detail in the sentence???

The duck jump over the fence holding with the feet landing with the tail.

ha  ha hahahahaha! LoL

So far, my favorite red wine brand is Shiraz from Wolf Blast. Aged 3 years. Expensive, but complements lamb really well. It has a cherrywood fragrance to it, which superfluates the taste. I had it slightly warmed over candle light. Perfect.

What is your favorite brand of wine?

Quote from: A Layman on November 21, 2008, 11:01:34 PM
It is but natural that the church should intervene with the policies of the government when the general welfare of the people is at stake. With the prevalence of government corruptions, oppressions, liquidations, abortions and legal manipulations happening within our present set up, would we like that the churches where the people foresee as providers of good moral support just remain silent as spectators because of the separation of church and state? The reasoning behind the separation of church and state is based on the treatise that both institutions would play each distinct role under the rule of law with the aid of the Divine Providence as emphasized in the preamble of our constitution. The church and the state are  institutionalized as the two balancing bodies whose role is to maintain harmony among the people of our society. If ever the church becomes an oppressor, then the state is obliged to intervene with the affairs of the church, and vise vera. There will never be an absolute rule for this presumption. There has to be a check and balance in order to maintain a harmonious order in this society where we belong. Long live the Filipino people.

Eloquently written, Raquel.

I say it again, eloquently written!

Quote from: bolingitboy on November 21, 2008, 11:28:38 PM
given the record of americans who "come to the rescue" in troubled places and act like a self-proclaimed international policeman, i'm just wondering why until now the americans have not sent even one single warship in the area, even if only to intimidate rowdy somali warlords.

Media, my friend. Only when the media bothers to print articles like this does one read or notice the actions of pirates or the defensive actions of the American Navy, Marines etc.

You never hear of the things the United States Military has done in defense of global trade in securing the seas. Because most of the time, everything is done in secrecy.

Most of the time, The Air Craft Carriers and task groups are abroad. Either to protect strategic shipping lanes, or to conduct military operations.

We can't be everywhere, naturally, as it takes money (billions of dollars) to provide oil, food, maintenance, and supplies for the battle groups in the US Navy. We can't be everywhere, all the time.

Quote from: rayborze on November 21, 2008, 06:32:40 AM
Unsa may nagpaluyo aning walay katapusang catastrophic events that has recently pounded the United States?

Many Americans are asking the question, why does this happen? why are we pounded by this catastrophic events?

Kay nakahibalo na baya ta ngano nga ang America nag antos karon, kay kani laging "SIN" nga kuno bahin sa modern humanist or secular movement is an thing from the past. There is only self realization, nothing else....hehehehhe makatawa ra baja ta ani oy, gahi jud diay nang kamagung nga kahoy no? or a birch tree? really?,

Statistics shows last years abortion in the USA, was the highest ever in the history of human existence, and you ask why is this happening to us?, Philippines do you want to share the punishment that is upon the USA? by becoming the 51st State?

The God Of Israel, Jesus Christ, "Elohim" in the old testament said: I will punish them, I will assign terror over them, I will make their land desolate, They have not known my ways.
I will destroy them until they realize that I Am that I Am.

Repentance is the key my friends, easy to say, hard to do.... not hard if you are living in a real world, but if you're mind is set on things that are not real,( utopianism) then you are in deep trouble, bisan unsa pay imong nahuman sa atong kalibutan, kung wala ang Ispiritu ni Kristo sa imong kinabuhi, maupaw nalang ka dili gihapon ka makasabot sa imong kinabuhi.

Cause and effect, its a very hard sell in America these days, and its spreading like cancer. The world is embracing it. So as the Philippines, Freedom from Sin and Guilt.

America has come to a point that, it might go down rapidly-- but the true followers of Christ will stay protected and blessed. and it is really true because of so many testemonies of true Christians in the United States that was spared from disasters.... The Bible is real and relevant in our day, Only God can change the course of America, If America does not repent--- then he will be humbled and broken.....

For us true followers of Christ, it is a very good sign--- He Is Coming Soon....

Cheers,
rayborze

    Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
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    Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law.  If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
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    There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save or to destroy. Who then are you to judge your neighbor?
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     Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit"--
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    you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow.  You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.
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    Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills it,  we shall live to do this or that."
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    But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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    So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.

--James 4: 10-17

Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye", and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

--Matthew 7:1-6

Sea Piracy is a response to the lack of  naval power in the region.


The navies of said African nations need to step up; that or the navies of developed nations need to increase their blue-water capability.

As the United States cannot handle all the world's seas. Even with our 18 Air Craft Carriers, The Super Power, afterall, is not omnicient like our God.

I dined on wheat bread, peanuts, and orange.

Me-thinks I'll get chicken tonight.

Psychology is a vast multi-disciplined field. You can be a Marxist Utopianist, a Calvanist Absolutist, you can be a Trumanist Pluralist or you can be a post-Jeffersonian Anarchist. lol.

The point is, psychology, is the study of the human mind, interspersed within the given society they live in. It correlates and corresponds with the the study of sociology.

One can, dare and wetherinto say, that the religious practices of groups of people within a given state, or within a society, if said state is a pluralist, is nothing but a manifest of said psychology.

If you're analyzing this in a broad and attenuated form.

haha, Rose


Being raised in a fairly conservative Filipino household, I find beauty in my parents' arguments and their semantics. There is always a process in their 'arguments'. lol. Mother says something, father says something back, they shout, one goes out, then comes back, after wards, they buy food, they cook, they eat. The children come.

And a new child is born next year. haha!

(mind you i am a bit overexageratting the 'next year' aspect, lol, you get the point).

My parents fight, they make love, they make war, they make love, and make amends, and they raise their children the right way. To me, and to us, their children, they fit each other. Two peas in a pot, me-thinks.

To Whom It May Concern,

The separation of church and state is not only misunderstood, it is also exceedingly important. That is probably one of the few points on which everyone on all sides of the debate can readily agree upon â€" their reasons for agreeing may differ, but they do concur that the separation of church and state is one of the key constitutional principles in American history.

Understanding the separation of church and state is complicated by the fact that we are using such a simplified phrase. There is, after all, no single “church.” There are many religious organizations in the United States taking different names â€" church, synagogue, temple, Kingdom Hall and more. There are also many corporate bodies that do not adopt such religious titles but which are nevertheless controlled by religious organizations â€" for example, Catholic hospitals.

Also, there is no single “state.” Instead, there are multiple levels of government at the federal, state, regional and local level. There is also a great variety of government organizations â€" commissions, departments, agencies and more. These can all have different levels of involvement and different relationships with the aforementioned religious organizations.

This is important because it underscores the fact that, in the “separation of church and state,” we cannot be talking about a single, literal church and a single, literal state. Those terms are metaphors, meant to point to something larger. The “church” should be construed as any organized religious body with its doctrines/dogmas and “state” should be construed as any governmental body, any government-run organization or any government-sponsored event.

Thus, a more accurate phrase than “separation of church and state” might be something like “separation of organized religion and civil authority,” because religious and civil authorities are not and should not be invested in the same people or organizations. In practice, this means that civil authority cannot dictate to or control organized religious bodies. The state cannot tell religious bodies what to preach, how to preach or when to preach. Civil authority must exercise a “hands off” approach, neither helping nor hindering religion.

Separation of church and state is a two-way street. It isn’t just about restricting what the government can do with religion, but also what religious bodies can do with the government. Religious groups cannot dictate to or control the government. They cannot cause the government to adopt their particular doctrines as policy for everyone, they cannot cause the government to restrict other groups, etc.

The biggest threat to religious freedom is not the government â€" or at least, not the government acting alone. We very rarely have a situation where secular government officials act to repress any particular religion or religion in general. More common are private religious organizations acting through the government by having their own doctrines and beliefs codified into law or policy.

Thus, the separation of church and state ensures that private citizens, when acting in the role of some government official, cannot have any aspect of their private religious beliefs imposed upon others. School teachers cannot promote their religion to other people’s children. Local officials cannot require certain religious beliefs on the part of government employees. Government leaders cannot make members of other religions feel like they are unwanted or are second-class citizens by using their position to promote particular religious beliefs.

This requires moral self-restraint on government officials, and even to a degree on private citizens â€" a self-restraint which is necessary for a religiously pluralistic society to survive without descending into religious civil war. It ensures that the government remains the government of all citizens, not the government of one denomination or one religious tradition. It ensures that political divisions not be drawn along religious lines, with Protestants battling Catholics or Christians battling Muslims for “their share” of the public purse.

The separation of church and state a key constitutional liberty which protects the American public from tyranny. It protects all people from the religious tyranny of any one religious group or tradition and it protects all people from a government intent on tyrannizing some or any religious groups.

In short, moral relativity is in basis of constitutionality, individuality, practicality and on ground with democratic rights. To which you and I part take of.

Practice what you preach.

And if you're lactose-intolerrant, there is a thing we call lactase. Drink up, baby. You're in for the long haul.

Ulcers and marriage go together eh?

I have a remedy for that then. Drink more milk!

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

Preguntale a la noche,
Si ha visto alguna vez.
Dos pieles abrazandose,
En una misma piel.

tu cuerpo es casi mio,
mi cuerpo es casi de él.
Dos islas que se buscan
Entre la niebla de las dos.

Si tu eres mi hombre, y yo tu mujer.
Donde quiera que estés amor
contigo estaré.

Porque el sol puede mentir.
Porque el mar puede engañar.
Todo puede ser mentira,
Pero nosotros somos verdad.

Si tu eres mi hombre, y yo tu mujer.
Donde quiera que estés amor
contigo estaré.

Lejana o cercana tu lo quieras o no.
No hay muerte en el mundo que
Consiga matar, una historia de amor.

La vida nos oprime,
nos oprime El corazón.
Mi estrella es sola tuya, tu estrella
Solo yó.

Si tu eres mi hombre, y yó tu mujer.
Donde quiera que estés amor
Contigo estaré.

Lejana o cercana
tu lo quieras o no.
No hay muerte en el mundo que Consiga matar,
una historia de amor. (x2)

The Spanish version of, 'Power of Love'

Ah, de mi fe! De mi fe!

I love this song, so very much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkU85GybgQ&feature=related

Verdad!

Lyrics:

Ever close your eyes.
Ever stop and listen.
Ever feel alive.
And you've nothing missing.
You don't need a reason
Let the day go on and on.

Let the rain fall down.
Everywhere around you
Give into it now.
Let the day surround you
You don't need a reason
Let the rain go on and on

What a day, what a day to take to
What a way, what a way to make it through.
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child

Only take the time.
From the helter skelter.
Every day you find.
Everything's in kilter.
You don't need a reason.
Let the day go on and on

Every summer sun,
Every winter evening.
Every spring to come
Every autumn leaving.
You don't need a reason
Let it all go on and on.

What a day, what a day to take to.
What a way, what a way to make it through
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child.
What a day, what a day to take to.
What a way, what a way to make it through.
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child.

What a day, what a day to take to.
What a way, what a way to make it through.
What a day, what a day to take to.
Da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
What a way, what a way to make it through
Da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
What a way, what a way to make it through
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child

by Enya

Alas, the requiem of the spirit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2gt4vUIWhE

A beautiful message from the late Pope John Paul II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvqxfw6gy0&feature=related

This is a brilliant man. I am reader of Crichton's works.

Brilliant man.

Where is home for you?

A reading,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKBZ_MvV6oo&eurl=http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit2

    My son, if you receive my words and treasure my commands,
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    3 Turning your ear to wisdom, inclining your heart to understanding;
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    Yes, if you call to intelligence, and to understanding raise your voice;
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    If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out:
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    Then will you understand the fear of the LORD; the knowledge of God you will find;
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    For the LORD gives wisdom, from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
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    He has counsel in store for the upright, he is the shield of those who walk honestly,
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    Guarding the paths of justice, protecting the way of his pious ones.
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    Then you will understand rectitude and justice, honesty, every good path;
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    For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will please your soul,
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    Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you;
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    Saving you from the way of evil men, from men of perverse speech,
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    Who leave the straight paths to walk in the way of darkness,
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    Who delight in doing evil, rejoice in perversity;
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    Whose ways are crooked, and devious their paths;
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    Saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
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    Who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the pact with her God;
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    For her path sinks down to death, and her footsteps lead to the shades;
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    None who enter thereon come back again, or gain the paths of life.
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    Thus you may walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the just.
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    For the upright will dwell in the land, the honest will remain in it;
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    But the wicked will be cut off from the land, the faithless will be rooted out of it.

Quote from: Macky Ferniz on April 23, 2008, 12:12:44 AM
Pahalipay alang kanimo Mike Ligalig tungod sa kalamposan sa imong Web Site, ug tungod sa imong tim-os nga pag higugma sa yutang natawhan, wala nimo hikalimti ang Bohol, bisan gi padpad ka sa halayung dapit. Busa imong gi-gahinan ug panahon/kahago para mahimugso kining Tubag Bohol.

Sama kanako ug sa tanang sakop, ang Tubag Bohol nahimong usa ka dangpanan. Dinhi, kami nag nagbugkos isip usa ka pamilya. Dinhi kami nagapahungaw sa among katawa ug nagapuga sa mga luha, among gisaw-an ang kalampusan ug kapakyasan, kalipay ug kasakit.

Busa isip pahinongod, tan-awa kining video nga akong hinimo (suway-suway lang).

Happy 1st Birthday ug ang Gugma ni Jesus maga-uban kanimo Mike. Daghang salamat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts0ClqtpD7o

A handsome video!

Mr. Ferniz, I have befriended you in youtube. Please accept, sir.


Yours,

Mr. Ferniz,

I want to tell you that I have an acquaintance here in medical school, of the surname Ferniz. She is not Filipina, however, but is Argentinian. When I met her I was astonished to know she is a Ferniz, as I knew that you were also of the Ferniz family.

Perhaps, sir, you have a common Spanish ancestor?

For me,

The meaning of life is feeling, response to stimuli, and the worship of God.
Life is the ultimate Gift of The Lord. Spend it wisely.

Beautiful,

the song,
and the singer,

me-thinks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Th-NWRtFU

I am nothing but dust and mud. But the grace of God, who poured life into me, am able to learn with a lowly mind as compared to the Absolute Intelligence of The Most High. Who writes all laws, all scripts, all equations.

I am a lowly student, a mere student. Who strives to follow in the footsteps of Christ Jesus. Who is the Divine Physician.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN_NjQ3UZd0
(Part II)

A great video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjeiDWLIP0U

(Part I)

History Lesson,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPdPBCF0EcU&feature=related

Quote from: -<GEC348>- on October 27, 2007, 11:58:31 AM


Ms. Dabinz,

Now you know

But the others already knew months agow  

You may have missed the posts how  Lorenzo sometimes address me...
          
                                                                      But that is another story  

haha, Gec.

Your stanzas, they get me, all the time.

lol.

A poet in our midst.

The arrival of the Spaniards and with their incorporation of Spanish infrastructure, led to the development of a burgeoning agricultural system, never seen before in the Philippines or in the region. The development of the Hacienda-Encomienda system provided and produced untold amounts of food the Malay peoples have never seen in such great quantity before. Constancy of the production of corn, rice, guava fruit, tomatoes, potatoes, ube, artichokes, cabbages, production of chickenry, pigs, cows, and other kinds of livestock.

All of which, thanks to Spanish Colonization, provided the basis for the beorgoning Filipino population.

When the Spaniards arrived in 1565, the population in the islands was no more than 200,000. Within a century's time, it had grown to 2 million. By the time of the revolution, the population has skyrocketed to 8 million.

Thanks to agricultural revolution.

Ube was utilized during the colonization epoch. As beans, pineapples, banana trees as well as corn was brought to the Philippines from other parts of the Spanish Empire, the Ube fruit was also incorporated. It was mass produced, as well as exported to other parts of the Latin World.

Ube is also seen in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Columbia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru etc.

An example of globalization some 3-4 centuries ago.

Noel Castro, a historian, claims that the origins of the Badjao are uncertain. According to a legend, they came from the shores of Johore, Indonesia, where they had already been living in clusters of houseboats. Anthropologist H. Arlo Nimmo (1968) believes, however, that the Badjao were originally of the land-based Samal group but branched off into boat dwellers as a result of their occupation. This practice might have subsequently spread to the area around Malaysia. Another theory is that the Badjao were originally boat dwellers who eventually built stilt houses near fertile fishing grounds.

Spanish and American influence on Badjao social and cultural development has been virtually nil due to two factors: the Badjao live in the territory of the Muslim Filipinos, although they are also the least influenced by Islam; and they are itinerant travelers.

Quote from: hofelina on November 20, 2008, 05:26:40 AM
Praise and Service  

God of wonder and awe, I lift my hands as I gaze on all the wonders you have made. But my praise is empty without service. Desiring to be your blessed and shared presence on this earth, I stretch out my hands in generous giving to minister to those I love and those I don't.

Amen, Amen, Amen!

To the Lord God Father, His Only Begotten Son Christ Jesus-the Satisfaction of Our Sins, and the Blessed and Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, be All Glory and Praise. From Beginning of Time to Everlasting Generations.

Lord, Father in Endless Majesty, forgive us, your children, for our missed works, for our faults, and reinvogorate all of us, give us strength and provide us our daily bread, which is in Christ Jesus, Who was sent to us to satisfy our sins and to bridge man and God.

Lord, My Loving Father, Hand that formed me in the womb of my mother, strengthen me this day. I want to be always with you, Father. Christ within me, christ behind me, christ before me, christ beneath me, christ above me, christ in my thoughts, christ in my mind, christ in my words, christ in my vision, christ in my eyes. Christ never leave me, Christ protect me from the wicked ones, Christ forgive me, Christ reconsole me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwJdd1_Jdk

Our Lord Jesus Christ,
The Bread from Heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuNY2a6puh4&feature=related

Tantum ergo
Down in adoration falling,
Lo! the sacred Host we hail;
Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,
Newer rites of grace prevail;
Faith for all defects supplying,
Where the feeble senses fail.
To the everlasting Father,
And the Son who reigns on high,
With the Holy Spirit proceeding
Forth from each eternally,
Be salvation, honor, blessing,
Might and endless majesty. Amen.

V. You have given them bread from heaven,

R. Having all delight within it.

Let us pray.

O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament
left us a memorial of your Passion:
grant, we implore you,
that we may so venerate
the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood,
as always to be conscious of the fruit of your Redemption.
You who live and reign forever and ever. Amen.

Anima Christi
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O good Jesus, hear me.
Within your wounds conceal me.
Do not permit me to be parted from you.
From the evil foe protect me.
At the hour of my death call me.
And bid me come to you,
to praise you with all your saints
for ever and ever.
Amen.

En ego, o bone et dulcissime Iesu
Here,
O good and gentle Jesus,
I kneel before you,
and with all the fervor of my soul
I pray that you engrave within my heart
lively sentiments of faith, hope, and love,
true repentance for my sins,
and a firm purpose of amendment.
While I see and I ponder your five wounds
with great affection and sorrow in my soul,
I have before my eyes those words of yours
that David prophesied about you:
"They have pierced my hands and feet;
I can count all my bones." (Ps 22, 17)
Amen.

I like this song especially when I am in my home parish. It feels like I am Home and at peace whenever I hear it sung.

Truly, a gift from God.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_j7hkP6z8k

We are all One One Bread and One Body. Through Christ Jesus, Our Lord and Saviour.

Again, I thank You, Father in heaven, for the blessings and graces You have give me this day. Once more I entreat Your continuing protection. Conscious of my own weakness and frailty, of my many faults, I entrust myself to Your loving care.

I entrust to Your protection, loving Father, those dear to me, my relatives, friends, and all those living and dead, who have done good for me and mine by Your holy inspiration. Be pleased, Eternal Father, to keep in Your care Your Church, the Holy Father, and all who serve You religiously. Please assist also all civil officials to exercise authority justly, and to direct all our people according to Your will.

In Your loving and tender mercy, Lord and Father, assist especially those who are poor and deprived, those who suffer, and all who are without hope in this life unless You come to their aid. It is You alone Who can bring great good out of the worst evils by Your unbounded power. So we trust You to curb the malice of the wicked, to convert sinners, and bring us all to a knowledge of Your love.

These favors we beg in the Name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Your only Son, Who reigns forever with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, through all ages. Amen.

Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us,
If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child,
his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers;
the first married a woman but died childless.
Then the second and the third married her,
and likewise all the seven died childless.
Finally the woman also died.
Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?
For all seven had been married to her.”
Jesus said to them,
“The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die,
for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God
because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise
even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,
when he called ‘Lord’
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for to him all are alive.”
Some of the scribes said in reply,

“Teacher, you have answered well.”
And they no longer dared to ask him anything.

--Luke 20: 27-40

The brilliance of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Father in Heaven,
The wisdom of God came upon Apostle Paul to reverberate this to us,

Paul, a Roman citizen and a commoner who lived in the 1st century AD was already given the knowledge of Anatomy and Embryology through Christ Our Lord.

And Sings Glory to the Brilliance of Almighty Providence,


To grasp better the thought of the author of First Thessalonians, it will be a good thing to keep in mind also another text, which we find in First Corinthians. Paul sets forth in it his great ecclesiological doctrine, according to which the Church is the Body of Christ. Paul takes the opportunity to formulate the following argumentation about the human body: "...God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose" (1 Cor 12:18). Further on he said: "On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those parts of the body which we think less honour able we invest with the greater honour , and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honour  to the inferior part, that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another" (ibid. 12:22-25).

Absolutely. And that is the point. Marriage does lessen his ability to minister. And that is the point.


This idea of a celibate clergy came from the Jews, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul.

The Jews. The Talmud argues that a person whose “soul is bound up with the Torah and is constantly occupied with it” may remain celibate (Maimonides, Laws of Marriage 15.3). For example, Yahweh ordered the prophet Jeremiah not to marry (Jeremiah 16:1-4). Moreover, the Essenes was a group that was active in Jesus’ time that practiced celibacy and thought by most scholars to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Additionally, a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church is an emulation of Christ Jesus. A Shepard of Christ's Anointed Church. Did Christ Jesus get married? Of course not. So the same shall be for Priests in his Anointed and Established Church, the Roman Catholic Church.

The Apostle Paul is explicit about his celibacy (see 1 Cor. 7). There is also evidence in the gospel of Matthew for the practice of celibacy among at least some early Christians, in the famous passage about becoming “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12).

Matthew 6:24 is definite on this, "No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other."
As a Priest, you serve and are anointed in Christ. You are His. You cannot serve your wife and children and at the same time minister to the Church. Forgo that conclusion.

Belated Happy Birthday, Paul.

Quote from: bol-anon nga cebuano on November 21, 2008, 12:05:21 AM
Do you agree that we boholanos are really having an ija-ija aho aho attitude?
I really don't want to hear people saying: mura man ka ug taga bohol, ija-ija aho-aho.
It's because i know that boholanos are helpful, sharing and kind.
Mas mag ija-ija pa ang mga cebuano kay kung naay hikay dili jud manawag ug silingan kay wala giimbitar. labi na kung naay pista, di ka kakaon kay wala ka ilhi ug wala ka imbetara. pero sa bohol, kung naay hikay ug pista aw welcome tanan bisan dili kaila ug wala imbetara. nya ingnon nila nga ija-ija aho aho. sa sinultian siguro pwede pero sa kinaiya dili. walay kalupig sa taga bohol in terms of being God fearing, industrious, helpful, honest and kind.

I agree with this statement.

I don't like generalizing peoples and categorizing them.

We are all different, and unique in our own way. And one thing I know about Boholanos, from the fact that I am one, is that we are a helpful bunch of people.

Boholanos are also extremely religious. The Catholic Faith emanates from us, and proud celebrants of our colorful Fiestas!

Even here in America, during January time, we celebrated the Fiesta of Valencia and celebrated the Blessed Santo Nino.

Valencianons from New Jersey-New York area met up at our place to celebrate the Blessed Santo Nino and have our own family fiesta.

This is why I love being a Valencianon. And a Boholano.







The Holy And Blessed Santo Nino, the Child Jesus Christ.


My baby bro preparing the wine, haha
Valencianon style, of course


Titas and Mom






Valencianons can eat, hahaha!


My Titos


Mga Valencianons


Mga Valencianons


Engineers being Engineers, hahaha!

Valencianon to the core.

I'm not going to pull another all-nighter study like last night again. Not again.

Sir Layman,

Perhaps we can start a beard-growing trend in here, haha. No but seriously, my beard is only in the early stages; as I haven't shaved  since last week. I do trim the upper and lower edges to keep it organized.

This is for you, my dear brother.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV1k_j99qXU

   

Alas,

I've decided to forgo the shaven look, and have decided to take up a beard. Many of my colleagues adorn a beard on their face, so, since Providence Almighty, has provided me the genetics of hair, I will make use of it. And shall grow it. This will be my first try in growing a full beard. I will document it here.

This is just an experiment, mind you. Feel free to give me your comments and advice.

The leaves from the trees fall down, the winds that pass trhough will blow one direction, the rain from the heavens will fall to the earth, the child will grow up, the elderly will perish. Truly there is a time for a place, for an event, for a happening in this world. Still it does not hit me why you had to leave us so young and so early in your life. It's been over a year my friend, and the pain of a loss of a good friend, especially when a death was so sudden, so immediate and so personal, is tragic and uneventful. I try to look beyond this situation and find a meaning on it, yet as much as logistics as much as realism as much as ponderance one can have on something like this, it still boggles my own mind. Not so much as it did a year ago, but nonetheless, i cannot help the fact that i do miss you, my friend. One, because we were of the same age group, second because you were my good friend, third because you never seemed the type to do the thing that you did.


I was able to talk to our mutual friend, Hannah, this week as well. Its good to know.

So I have a dedication for you, bro, its a work form Percy B. Shelley. You're type of poet, lol.


                 There was a Poet whose untimely tomb,

            51No human hands with pious reverence reared,
            52But the charmed eddies of autumnal winds
            53Built o'er his mouldering bones a pyramid
            54Of mouldering leaves in the waste wilderness:--
            55A lovely youth,--no mourning maiden decked
            56With weeping flowers, or votive cypress wreath,
            57The lone couch of his everlasting sleep:--
            58Gentle, and brave, and generous,--no lorn bard
            59Breathed o'er his dark fate one melodious sigh:
            60He lived, he died, he sung, in solitude.
            61Strangers have wept to hear his passionate notes,
            62And virgins, as unknown he passed, have pined
            63And wasted for fond love of his wild eyes.
            64The fire of those soft orbs has ceased to burn,
            65And Silence, too enamoured of that voice,
            66Locks its mute music in her rugged cell.

Today is your death anniversary, bro.

Miss you, and i celebrate your life. One year went that fast?

First of all, I would like to commend all those in this inter-faith dialogue. And I think this discussion has provided the communication basis for understanding and enlightening of some aspects of the Roman Catholic Church, the Original Christian Faith, from which All other Christian denominations sprang forth.

So let me correct some misinterpretations some of you have concerning the Holy Roman Catholic Church.


Protestant apologists claim that the Catholic Church dropped the Second Commandment in order to allow its common practice of worshiping images, alleging that the Catholic Church condones the worship of images. To the Catholic this makes no sense. No good Catholic worships images. The reason that images are explicitly forbidden in Deuteronomy is because some of the ancient Jews really worshiped them, the images themselves, as gods. No Catholic worships statues or any kind of images. So to command that no false gods be worshiped in one commandment and then to command that images are not to be made in another commandment is very redundant. The single commandment not to worship false gods obviously covers the worshiping of images. And God does not forbid the making of graven images; see below.


Dividing Deuteronomy 21 into two commandments makes sense because lust and greed (avarice) are two different things; this division is more logical than lumping them together into one commandment. This lumping together also comes very close to categorizing women as property, which they are not. The Protestant reformers adopted their version of the Ten Commandments when they adopted the Jewish Bible as a replacement for the Catholic Bible. The Jewish Ten Commandments is similar to the Protestant because the Jews retained their traditional version which goes back to the time when image worship was a big problem. [The next article will address the difference between the Protestant and the Catholic Bibles]. When the early Church numbered the Ten Commandments, image worship was not a problem among the early Christians and a commandment to forbid their creation was deemed unnecessary.


Images and statues, to a Catholic, are no different than photographs of loved ones who have passed away. They simply serve to remind us of them and to help us focus on their memory and hence they are a way of venerating loved ones, of giving reverence. This is not worshiping. To a Catholic, only God is worthy of worship and adoration. [There are different levels of worship: latria versus dulia and hyperdulia; latria being the highest form, that reserved for God alone, which is what is being talked about here. The expression, "He worships the very ground she walks on" is an example of dulia, i.e., worship at its lowest level; English is handicapped by having only one word, "worship," while Latin has more words for "worship"]. To look at some Catholics before some images, you might think they are worshiping. Perhaps there are some misguided Catholics who do attribute divine power to a saint represented in an image or statue. But this is wrong and these Catholics are in error. The teaching of the Church is always against the worship of false gods and attributing divine power to any saint would be false worship. The only "power" a saint possesses is that of intercession wherein a saint can pray for us, just as we can ask anyone to pray for us. For to a Catholic, the saints are not dead, but alive in heaven and, as part of our family, they can hear our prayers and pray for us just as any loved one can pray for us.


There are numerous places in the Old Testament where God commands the making of graven images ("graven" simply means "sculpted"): Exodus 25:18-21 (angels), Numbers 21:8-9 (a bronze serpent), 1 Kings 6:23-28 describes statues of angels in the temple, as does Ezechiel 41:17-25. So God does not forbid the making of graven images, but only the worship (latria) of them. Catholics do not even give dulia to graven images.



Through Christ Our Lord,

Notions of woman and woman as well as man man relationships do not apply to the future and lineage of mankind. As these kinds of relationships do not propagate the human species.

Ultimately, heterogenous unions, of man-and-woman is what determines the existance and the fundibility of mankind.

The necessity of man-woman interaction is not based on superficial notions of love, and 'feelings' that are arbitrary in nature, but is based on the UNDERLYING natural need to proliferate and bear one's own seed.

Underneath all romantics, forms of romantics (poems, clothing, dancing, etc etc), the underlying goal is already embedded within the mind of the man and the woman.

That is: CHILDBIRTH.

This question is a silly question, fundamentally.

Of course women need men; woman has needed man since the daylight of the Human Species.

Both man and woman, who are eukaryotic mammalian species, require each other for proliferative purposes. In a species-wide assessment, we are all biologically created for one another.

So long as man continues to bear seed, this innate and naturally absolute law will continue to be Law.


Truly Yours,

Every bottle of liquor one drinks chronically; every cigarette one smokes profusely, is equivalent to killing yourself slowly. The honest to God Truth.


Liver Cirrhosis and Lung Cancer is totally preventable. Fact.

And the Lord God of Heaven Said,

When one finds a worthy wife,
her value is far beyond pearls.
Her husband, entrusting his heart to her,
has an unfailing prize.
She brings him good, and not evil,
all the days of her life.
She obtains wool and flax
and works with loving hands.
She puts her hands to the distaff,
and her fingers ply the spindle.
She reaches out her hands to the poor,
and extends her arms to the needy.
Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting;
the woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Give her a reward for her labors,
and let her works praise her at the city gates.

--Proverbs 31

One cup of blessing which we bless, and we, though many throughout the earth, we are one body in this one Lord.

Good Sunday Morning to you, Brother Brown!

The Love and Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, be with you.

He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

Proverbs 27:18

A verse in scripture for every day, of every week of every month.

One bread, one body,
one Lord of all,
one cup of blessing which we bless.
And we, though many,
throughout the earth,
we are one body in this one Lord.
1. Gentile or Jew,
servant or free,
woman or man, no more.
2. Many the gifts,
many the works,
one in the Lord of all.
3. Grain for the fields,
scattered and grown,
gathered to one, for all.

One Bread, One Body, One Lord of All!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6xIdDYiA9A

Lord, I lift Your name on high.
Lord, I love to sing Your praises.
I'm so glad You're in my life.
I'm so glad You came to save us.
You came from Heaven to earth to show the way,
From the earth to the cross, my debt to pay;
From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky;
Lord, I lift Your name on high. (Repeat)

Lord, I Lift Your Name On High!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQ6cni_TG8&feature=related

Beware of Lung Tumors and No To Smoking!


Folks, I can't stress this enough that there is conclusive evidence that squamous cell carcinoma, the principal lung tumor type, is related to the effects of cigarette smoking on the bronchial and bronchiolar epithelial lining.

So, therefore, medically speaking, chronic smoking induces the transformation of the respiratory epithelium into stratified squamous epithelium, which is the initial step in its eventual differentiation into a tumor.

For those who are thinking about smoking and those who do smoke, please, stop.



Thanks.

Helpful and encouraging hints, advice and requests for all peoples. Everyone.

A Helpful Tidbit of information.

Hand of Providence,

The works of your hand sing your glory, Lord.
All creation emanate life from which pour forth from your own Hands.
Lord, Life, and Man are your creation, nothing is possible without you.

This day, Lord, the heavens rain down water to the land. The movement of the clouds, the change of color, the hidden of the sun.

You are the the architect of architects. For Your Hand, nothing is impossible. Father Almighty.

Quote from: calle on November 14, 2008, 05:02:34 PM
the system is not flawed.. it is the men and women running the system that is flawed.. these are two different things enzo..

buwad: baranga na lagi na sila buwad

These two are fundamentally the same thing. A government is judged not on the system, anyone can have a system, however, a government defines and its jurisprudence emanates the true character of the system in power.

The Sovietic political system, if you read it in paper is perfect. Idealistic and utopic in nature. However, the intrinsic and humanistic truth is that power was abused, and the utopianism dreamed by men such as Marx, Lenin were turned around by dictators such as Stalin, Krushev and subsequent men who followed the latters' own tenants.

Political system and Political Unit in power are one and the same.

It is basic Political Science.

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus




Tiberius was born in 42 BC, the son of the aristocratic Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. When Tiberius was two, his father had to flee Rome from the second triumvirate (Octavian, Lepidus, Mark Antony) because of his republican beliefs (he had fought against Octavian in the civil wars).
When Tiberius was four his parents parents divorced and his mother instead married Octavian, the later Augustus.

Though Tiberius, a large, strong man, had been groomed by Augustus as his successor, he was actually the fourth choice after Agrippa, husband of Augustus' only daughter Julia, and their sons, Gaius and Lucius, all three of whom died in the lifetime of Augustus.
Thus, being obviously a second-rate choice as heir to the throne, Tiberius was laden with a feeling of inferiority.

He enjoyed good health, though his skin sometimes suffered from 'skin eruptions' - most likely rashes of some sort. Also he had a great fear of thunder. He profoundly disliked gladiatorial games and made no attempt in pretending to do so, in order to win popularity with the ordinary people of Rome.

In 25 BC he already held his first post as an officer in Cantabria. By 20 BC he accompanied Augustus to the east to reclaim the standards lost to the Parthians by Crassus thirty-three years earlier.
In 16 BC he was appointed governor of Gaul and by 13 BC he held his first consulship.

Then, after the death of Agrippa in 12 BC, Augustus forced a reluctant Tiberius to divorce his wife Vipsania, in order to marry, Julia, Augustus' own daughter and widow of Agrippa.
Then, from 9 BC to 7 BC, Tiberius fought in Germany.
In 6 BC Tiberius was granted tribunician power but he very soon retired to Rhodes, as Augustus was grooming his grandsons Gaius and Lucius to become his heirs. Alas, by 2 BC the unhappy marriage to Julia had broken down completely and she was exiled, supposedly for adultery but very likely due the deep dislike Tiberius felt for her.

Then, with the death of the two apparent heirs Gaius and Lucius, Augustus called Tiberius out of retirement, reluctantly recognizing him as his successor. In AD 4 Augustus adopted him, adding the words 'This I do for reasons of state.' If these words proved anything, then it was, that Augustus was as reluctant to make Tiberius his successor as Tiberius appeared to be reluctant to become it. In any case, Tiberius was granted tribunician powers for ten years and was handed command of the Rhine frontier.
As part of the deal though Tiberius was required to adopt his own eighteen year old nephew Germanicus as heir and successor.

So, from AD 4 to 6 Tiberius again campaigned in Germany. The follwing three years he spent putting down rebellions in Pannonia and Illyricum. After this he restored the Rhine frontier after Rome's defeat at the Varian disaster.

In AD 13 Tiberius' constitutional powers were renewed on equal terms with those of Augustus, making his succession inevitable, as the elderly Augustus died in AD 14.

Tiberius was summoned back not by the senate but by his elderly mother, Livia, widow of Augustus.
Now approaching or in her her seventies, Livia was a matriarch and she wanted to share in ruling the country, too. Tiberius though would have none of it, but in order to secure his position he had Agrippa Postumus, the exiled, last surviving grandson of Augustus, murdered, though some said it was organized by Livia without his knowledge.

At the very beginning of his reign, the powerful Danube and Rhine legions mutinied, because some of Augustus promises regarding their terms of service and benefits were not met. Also they had sworn allegiance neither to the state, nor to Tiberius, but to Augustus. Though, after initial difficulties, these disturbances were eventually quelled.

What followed were several years of intrigue at court, as candidates to succeed Tiberius (and their wives, daughters, friends, etc) manoeuvered for position. Tiberius had probably no part in any of this. But sensing it happening around him unsettled him and only further contributed to his indecision in matters of government.

Germanicus then tried to bring back the German territories lost with the Varian disaster with three successive military campaigns, but failed in achieving this. In AD 19 Germanicus died in Antioch, where he by then held a high command in the east. Some rumours state that Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, governor of Syria and confidant of Tiberius, had poisoned him. Piso was tried for murder and ordered to commit suicide, but the suspicion remained that he had been acting for the emperor.
The death of Germanicus would have left the way open for Tiberius' own son Drusus to succeed as emperor, but by AD 23 he too was dead, possibly poisoned by his wife Livilla.
The two apparent heirs were now the sons of Germanicus; seventeen year-old Nero Caesar and sixteen year-old Drusus Caesar.

Finally in AD 26 Tiberius had had enough. Because he had probably always been happiest when away from the capital and its evelasting intrigue, Rome's emperor simply departed to his holiday mansion on the isle of Capreae (Capri), never to return to the city.

He left the government in the hands of Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the praetorian prefect. Sejanus believed himself a potential successor of the emperor, and was conspiring against Tiberius whilst removing any other possible candidates to the throne.
In one historic move Sejanus had earlier, in AD 23, moved the nine praetorian cohorts from their camps outside the city into one camp within the confines of the city itself, creating a vast power base for himself.

Enjoying near unlimited power in Rome, Sejanus was free to act and moved the two immediate heirs to the throne, Nero Caesar and Drusus Caesar, aside on what were most likely ficticious charges of treason. Nero Caesar was banished to an island, Drusus was imprisoned in the cellar of the imperial palace. It was long and both were dead. Nero Caesar was ordered to commit suicide, Drusus Caesar was starved to death.

This left only one more surviving son of Germanicus as heir to the throne, the young Gaius (Caligula).

Sejanus' power reached its high-point when he held consular office in the same year as Tiberius (AD 31). But then he brought about his own downfall by plotting the elimination of nineteen year-old Gaius.
The key moment was teh arrival of a letter sent to the emperor by his sister-in-law Antonia warning him of Sejanus.

Tiberius might have retired to his island for his dislike of politics and intrigues. But when he saw teh necessity he could still ruthlessly exercise power. Command of the pratorian guard was secretely transferred to one of Tiberius' friends, Naevius Cordus Sertorius Macro, who on 18 October AD 31 had Sejanus arrested during a meeting of the senate. A letter by the emperor to the senate was then read out expressing Tiberius' suspicions. Sejanus was duly executed, his corpse dragged through the streets and thrown into the Tiber. His family and many of his supporters suffered similar fates.

Tiberius then drew up his will, indecisive to the very end, he left Gaius and Gemellus (Tiberius' own grandson) as joint heirs, but is was obvious that it would be by now twenty-four year-old Gaius who would truly succeed him. For one Gemellus was still an infant. But also because Tiberius appeared to suspect that Gemellus was in fact an adulterous child of Sejanus.

There were many rumours suggesting that Tiberius' retirement home on Capri was a palace of never ending sexual excesses, however, other reports state that Tiberius had moved there 'with only a few companions', who consisted mainly of Greek intellectuals whose conversation Tiberius enjoyed.

Tiberius last years were still fraught with morbid mistrust, and an increase of treason trials gave this time a air of terror. It was in early AD 37 that Tiberius fell ill while travelling in Campania. He was taken to his villa in Misenum in order to recover, but died there on 16 March AD 37.

Rayborze,

I am not discussing the situation in Canada or in the United States, clearly the political systems in place in said countries are far more transparent than the ones in the Philippines. Corruption, or the basis of corruption in any westernized countries is a political dead end; however, in the Philippines, it is a sad and pathetic reality. It is the only way for one to wield power. Truth. Vote buying is an absolute REALITY. Political pocketing, provincial funds being pocketed, all of such are realistic truths.

And for one to declare and think that any change will happen in the not too distant future is realistically too naive or unable to assess the situation, rather circumventing the said topic.

If you understand how the human mind thinks, as in taking a psychiatric or psychological course, you will understand that there is a system of Pavlovian system. A reward-based inclination; whereas a response will be rewarded with a reward in that delegative processes. In the Philippines, the current wielders of power have been taught that very system of corruption by the elders who wielded power decades ago. And who themselves were taught of the same prcesses by those in power decades upon decades ago. The men such as Quezon, as well as Luna, were themselves products of political maneuvering and corruption, considering the educational discrepancies of the public during their own times.

Suffice to say, that indeed the current state of affairs of the Philippines is a result of that own said processes that abides, fundamentally and coincidentally, with the Pavlovian Concept as well as the Thibideoux Concept. The sad and direct reality of the situation, Rayborze, is that this problem will not go away nor will it subside in the near future due to the pragmaticism and the high level of spread of this necrotic manifestation in the political spectrum in the Philippines. The generation in power will subsequently influence those in the future generation as they themselves will rise to power. And continue this sad and pathetic cyclic reverberum that has made it symbolic of Filipino Political Life.


Thank you for quoting and reitering scripture, but we are not a Theocracy nor shall we ever become a theocracy. Religion does not belong in government. Religion belongs in the private sector and should NEVER be combined together. Ever.




Truly and Absolutely Yours,
Bran Lorenzo

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus "Augustus"



The First Emperor and Father of the Roman Empire


Augustus Caesar of Rome was born with the given name Gaius Octavius on September 23, 63 B.C. He took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian) in 44 B.C. after the murder of his great uncle, Julius Caesar. In his will Caesar had adopted Octavian and made him his heir.

Octavian was a shrewd, brilliant and astute politician. Through cold, hard political calculation he was able to achieve ultimate power in Rome. At the time of Caesar’s assassination, Octavian held no official position. Only after he marched on Rome and forced the senate to name him consul, was he established as a power to be reckoned with.

In 43 B.C., Octavian, Marcus Antonius (Marc Antonyâ€"one of Julius Caesar’s top lieutenants) and another Roman General, Marcus Lepidus, formed the second Triumvirate to rule Rome. After taking power, the Triumvirate proscribed and slaughtered thousands of political enemies, firmly establishing their control of the Roman government.

In 40 B.C., Antony married Octavia, Octavian’s sister, and later deserted her for Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. When Antony gave Roman provinces to his children by Cleopatra, Octavian declared war on Antony. In 31 B.C. the Roman Navy under Agrippa defeated the combined fleets of Antony and Cleopatra, and within a year both had committed suicide.

In 27 B.C., the Roman Senate granted Octavian the name Augustus, meaning “the exalted.” They also gave him the legal power to rule Rome’s religious, civil and military affairs, with the Senate as an advisory body, effectively making him Emperor.

Rome achieved great glory under Octavian/Augustus. He restored peace after 100 years of civil war; maintained an honest government and a sound currency system; extended the highway system connecting Rome with its far-flung empire; developed an efficient postal service; fostered free trade among the provinces; and built many bridges, aqueducts and buildings adorned with beautiful works of art created in the classical style. Literature flourished with writers including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Livy all living under the emperor’s patronage.

The empire expanded under Augustus with his generals subduing Spain, Gaul (now France), Panonia and Dalmatia (now parts of Hungary and Croatia). He annexed Egypt and most of southwestern Europe up to the Danube River. After his death, the people the Roman Empire worshiped Augustus as a god.

I finished reading a chronology book based on the lives and political policies of the Emperors of Rome. So in dedication of the hundreds of Emperors that sat on the Imperial Throne in the Capitoline, I will post pictures of some incredible Emperors to sit in the Golden Scepteral Throne of the Impenetrable Roman Empire.

The Greatest Empire in Human History.

I am indeed in love with her voice.

Her songs are perfect for fantasy-based books.

When I listen to her songs, I think of Lord of The Rings.

Quote from: rayborze on November 14, 2008, 05:43:03 PM
What i was driving at, Is a renewing of the mind. You must be willing to change from the inside out... It's not rocket science-- it's called turning away from old habits and starting a new way of life, new way of thinking, it's like becoming a real Christian...That is why God gave us wisdom and knowledge, but if we are dull and damdam, and not willing to change then it will permeate... and it will become stinky and crappyyy and rotten....As we all know that government system is another form of humanistic religion, we call it, secular religion in the America's.

No one is arguing about the need for change; as that has already been fundamentally established.

Again, I stand, we are all inclined to change, however, the political system in this country makes it an unfortunate necessity to be corrupt in order to wield the reigns of power. Unfortunately.

I am not arguing with you that change, indeed, is needed. But the processes of said change is the one that is being discussed. HOW can we subject change, what specific changes can be implemented to actually procure a realistic effect.



Let us think outside the utopic ideologue and and within the realm of realism.

Quote from: calle on November 14, 2008, 05:02:34 PM
the system is not flawed.. it is the men and women running the system that is flawed.. these are two different things enzo..

buwad: baranga na lagi na sila buwad

I will not argue the semantics of the situation, Calle, as this has been argued time and time before. The system in the Philippines is flawed.

Pray, divulge us with a solution that is attainable, if it is even possible.


Faithfully,

Happy Birthday Aleth Hazel,

I hope that all your goals and your plans are met this year. May the Good Lord continue to bless you and bless all your friends and family. Enjoy your day of days!

Yours,

Look at how the Prime Minister of Vietnam cowers at President Marcos!

This was in the early 1970s and during this time, the Republic of the Philippines was one of the richest countries in South East Asia, and the largest Armed Forces in the region at the time.

During this time, The Philippine Air Force boasted squadrons of F-8 crusaders, squadrons of F-5II (then the equivalent of the F-22 RAPTOR), as well as countless strafer fighters.

It is a damn shame how we left our course. We were once at the apex of the region.

It is a shame. Absolute Shame.

President Marcos' speech regarding continued Filipino friendship with Vietnam.

I have never heard President Marcos speak ever, as I was only 1 years old when he was booted out of office.

But seeing this video, I cannot help the fact that I am impressed by his excellent oratory skills. This man, was truly in a league of his own. It is a true shame that he was corrupt.

Oh what a GREAT president he could HAVE been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smphSqZrHNw&feature=related
President Marcos' Speech

President Arroyo and the Royal Family meeting the Nobility of Spain.

Including Isabel Preysler, a Filipina of Spanish decent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXUjAXgdSzo&feature=related

His Royal Spanish Majesty's Royal Band plays the Philippine Anthem on behalf of the visiting President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

King Juan Carlos is standing with President Arroyo.

I wonder what men such as Rizal and Del Pilar would have done had they lived to see this.
The King of Spain, and a Filipina. The colonizer playing the former colony's national anthem on the colonizer's own soil.

Ah beautiful! Beautiful!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBaqkt7XfYs


Long Live Spanish-Filipino Fraternity.