Scribe Archive

25 Feb 2012

“The fiery orb sets
-The waning crescent’s risen.
Night peeks behind trees.”

-Axl Ross Tumanut

I came up with this haiku while waiting for a jeepney on my way home. I intended to describe what’s in sight and saved the text in my cellphone. Now I’m posting it here. Thanks to my English 11 Class, I was able to reawaken my love for poetry. 

2 Oct 2011

31 Oct 2010


I love this conversation. J
Just sharing!



A VERY INTERESTING CONVERSATION 

An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the Problem Science has 
with 
GODthe ALMIGHTY. He asked one of his New Christian Students to stand and … 

Professor :
 You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ? 
Student :
 Yes, sir. 
Professor :
 So, you Believe in GOD ? 
Student :
 Absolutely, sir. 
Professor :
 Is GOD Good ? 
Student :
 Sure. 
Professor :
 Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL ? 
Student :
 Yes. 
Professor :
 My Brother died of Cancer even though he Prayed to GOD to Heal him. 
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. 
But 
GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm? 
(Student was silent )
 

Professor :
 You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, Young Fella. 
Is 
GOD Good? 
Student :
Yes.
Professor :
Is Satan good ? 
Student :
 No. 
Professor :
 Where does Satan come from ? 
Student :
 From … GOD . .. .. 
Professor :
 That’s right.. Tell me son, is there evil in this World? 
Student :
 Yes. 
Professor :
Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct? 
Student :
 Yes. 
Professor :
 So who created evil ? 
(Student did not answer)
 

Professor :
 Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? 
All these terrible things exist in the World, don’t they?

Student :
Yes, sir.. 
Professor :
 So, who Created them ? 
(Student ha
no answer) 

Professor :
 Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe the World around you.. 
Tell me, son … Have you ever Seen 
GOD?
Student :
 No, sir. 
Professor :
 Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD
Student :
 No , sir. 
Professor :
 Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your GOD
Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of 
GOD for that matter?
Student :
 No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t. 
Professor :
 Yet you still Believe in HIM
Student :
 Yes. 
Professor :
 According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, 
Science says your 
GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student :
 Nothing.. I only have my Faith
Professor :
 Yes,Faith. And that is the Problem Science has. 

Student :
 Professor, is there such a thing as Heat? 
Professor :
 Yes. 
Student :
 And is there such a thing as Cold? 
Professor :
 Yes. 
Student :
 No, sir. There isn’t. 
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events )
 

Student :
 Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat,White Heat
a Little Heat or No Heat.. 
But we don’t have anything called Cold. 
We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is No Heat, but we can’t go any further after that. 
There is no such thing as Cold. 
Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat. 
We cannot Measure Cold. 
Heat is Energy. 
Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.
 
(There was Pin-Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre )
 

Student :
 What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness? 
Professor :
 Yes. What is Night if there isn’t Darkness? 
Student :
 You’re wrong again, sir. 
Darkness is the Absence of Something 
You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light … 
But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn’t it? 
In reality, Darkness isn’t. 
If it is, were you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor :
 So what is the point you are making, Young Man ? 
Student :
 Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise is flawed. 
Professor :
 Flawed ? Can you explain how? 
Student :
 Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality.. 
You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD
You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, Science can’t even explain a Thought. 
It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. 
To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that 
Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing. 

Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it. 
Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from a Monkey?

Professor :
 If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do. 
Student :
 Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir? 
(The Professor shook his head with a Smile, beginning to realize where the Argument was going )
 

Student :
 Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and 
Cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor, 
Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir? 
Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
 
(The Class was in Uproar )
 

Student :
 Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the Professor’s Brain? 
(The Class broke out into Laughter )
 

Student :
 Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s Brain, Felt it, touched or Smelt it? … 
No one appears to have done so. 

So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, 
Science says that You have No Brain, sir. 
With all due respect, sir, how do we then Trust your Lectures, sir?
 
(The Room was Silent.. The Professor stared at the Student, his face unfathomable)
 

Professor :
 I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son. 
Student :
 That is it sir … Exactly ! 
The Link between Man & 
GOD is FAITH
That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.


NB:


That student was
Albert Einstein. 

30 Oct 2010

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over to give birth to themselves.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in The Time of Cholera

22 Sep 2010

“Aye, fight and you may die.
Run, and you’ll live… at least a while.
And dying in your bed many years from now,
would you be willing to trade all the days,
from this day to that,
for one chance,
just one chance,
to come back here and tell our enemies
that they may take our lives,
but they’ll never take.. our FREEDOM !!!”
— Braveheart, 1995

19 Sep 2010

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
— Bertrand Russell 

19 Sep 2010

Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history’s forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can’t we love one another just a little - that’s how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.

-Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England (1154-1189)

Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 1968 film The Lion in Winter

17 Sep 2010

“Man is the most elevated of creatures, Woman the most sublime of ideals.
God made for man a throne; for woman an altar.
The throne exalts, the altar sanctifies.
Man is the brain, Woman, the heart.
The brain creates light, the heart, Love. Light engenders, Love resurrects.
Because of reason Man is strong, because of tears Woman is invincible.
Reason is convincing, tears moving.
Man is capable of all heroism, Woman of all martyrdom.
Heroism ennobles, martyrdom sublimates.
Man has supremacy, Woman, preference.
Supremacy is strength, preference is the right.
Man is a genius, Woman, an angel.
Genius is immeasurable, the angel undefinable.
The aspiration of man is supreme glory,
The aspiration of woman is extreme virtue.
Glory creates all that is great; virtue, all that is divine.
Man is a code, Woman a gospel.
A code corrects, the gospel perfects.
Man thinks, Woman dreams.
To think is to have a worm in the brain,
to dream is to have a halo on the brow.
Man is an ocean, Woman a lake.
The ocean has the adorning pearl, the lake, dazzling poetry.
Man is the flying eagle, Woman, the singing nightingale.
To fly is to conquer space. To sing is to conquer the Soul.
Man is a temple, Woman a shrine.
Before the temple we discover ourselves, before the shrine we kneel.
In short, man is found where earth ends, woman where heaven begins.”
— Victor Hugo

4 Aug 2010

“Plato once said that human beings used to have two heads, four arms, four legs and two sexes that allowed them to move very fast, look in all directions at the same time and reproduce almost instantly. Their increasing number and abilities frightened the gods. Fearing that they might be overthrown, Zeus struck them with his lightning bolt and split each human into two: a man and a woman-each one weaker than before. From then on, everyone has to find his or her other half in order to be whole again and regain the strength they once lost.”

10 Mar 2010

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