The sky is bleeding, we must fear the flood
The Bong Borg Car Wash and Kape’ plus other stuff
January 22, 2007
The Bong Borg Car Wash and Kape'
My whips getting a makeover
The Kape'
Some plants at the Kape'
The menu
Got myself a Coke Sakto, for the first time. Didn't realise it was so small. My cellphone is there for reference.
One of the carwashers watching Eat Bulaga, presumably scoping out the EB babes. hehe
My shoes with my Samsung LCD tv, Marantz amp and sound system, Xbox and DVD player in the background. hehe
Close up of my shoes… hehe.. man, this is really stupid.
A stupid self portrait at the wedding reception
Avendano - Bernardo Nuptials
Attended another wedding. I think as you get older, you can expect to attend more and more of these ocassions.
Santuario de San Jose
The bride.
The church interior
Ice sculpture at the receptio
Pamilya Zaragosa pose
Pamilya kabisote pose
Ginno’s post - age old argument between the faithful and the skeptical
January 18, 2007This is Ginno's post called Pascal's Wager.
"you'd better believe in God, because if you are right you stand to gain eternal bliss and if you are wrong it won't make any difference anyway. on the other hand, if you don't believe in God and you turn out to be wrong you get eternal damnation, whereas if you are right it makes no difference. on the face of it the decision is a no-brainer. believe in God."
hmm… if God did really exist (which is improbable), would you bet on God's valuing dishonestly faked belief over honest scepticism?
religion. what a waste of brain matter.
My reponse:
you know naman that i'm a skeptic but i want to be optimistic about it. so i CHOOSE to believe that there's a god coz it gives sense to the universe. also, so that when i die i can get answers to everything about the cosmos.
i was in a discussion about something related to this the other day, i asked my officemates where in the bible it says that you have to go to church. they quoted the 10 commandments - the one about keeping sabbath holy. i argued that THAT doesn't specifically say go to church. Wasn't it Jesus christ who first violated the rabbi's on the age old understanding that nobody should lift a finger on the sabbath. Going to church is a tradition, which is mostly what religion is all about. Sad.
I think most "religious" people are either hypocrites or don't really bother to understand what they believe in - in which case, they're also hypocrites.
Just to expound on that. I choose to believe because there's just too many things that cannot be fathomed by the human mind. I doubt that there will come a time that the human race would have evolved to such a point that it's power already borders on godliness. We would probably have to exist for milenia - surviving through everything this universe could ever throw at us. Not that I wouldn't like that to happen, it's just improbable. But hey, luck's been on our side so far.
The existence of a God also provides meaning to existence. I know that it's a bit egotistic of man (and emotional) to think that we're more than just animals, thinking that there might be purpose in life but, all the more, it gives value to whatever it is that we do. But who's to say that everything that we do is not just a complex set of reactions to stimuli, even conscience or what we perceive to be conscience may have just evolved out of series of natural selection over millions of years? It was either Pavlov or some other psychologist under the same school of thought who argued that.
Mine is a cerebral process. Choosing to believe is, unfornately, not faith.
I also want to elaborate on my accusation that most of the "faithful" are hypocrites. This brings me back to my usual question whether a fully-repented serial killer is holier than a priest who has known no evil in his life. Personally, I would rather believe the serial killer. A person who has lived his entire life in sanctity cannot and must not judge the lives of those who have actually lived a true life. One cannot begin to understand that which he has not experienced for himself.
It's not what you say that makes a difference, it's what you do. I have to qualify that however. Some people will go to church simply because it's mandated by some heavenly power but nevertheless end up sleeping or flirting or God-knows-what in Church. Now, compare that to a man who has not in his life heard about a God but has lived his life relatively peacefully and accordingly, doing good where he can, changing the world for the better where possible. The answer is clear.
Obviously, I will not win in this argument because it's so easy to say that it's faith, or it's God's word or whatever. Now, that's hypocrisy.
That's just on one hand. On the other, I praise (to use a very religiously inspired term) those who actually believe in a God with understanding of what they're actually believing, and also knowing full well all the arguments that are against their faith. It's so easy to say that you've read the Bible or some other religious text, it's another to actually absord and understand what it's saying. Like I said, it's so easy to leave it all to faith.
I believe that religion is but a guide, a set of traditions laid down to lead people into the right direction, so to speak. There's Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism and all its spinoffs, etc, etc. Which religiion is the right religion? Which God is the right God?
At the end of it all, not everybody can be right, right?
Last wednesday
January 9, 2007Went out with Strawbs. Took a few pictures. Not really any good ones.
There she is buying coffee.
