I like spaghetti. It's easy to cook, tastes good even with minimal effort in making it, and its affordable. Tonight, I will be cooking spaghetti and will be eating it as we celebrate the coming of the New Year. Spaghetti for me symbolizes a myriad of things. I have actually created my own symbolism for my favorite food. The long, white noodles represent the hope for a happy and more prosperous life in the coming New Year, hopefully I will find an exciting and fulfilling job. The red sauce represents passion, passion to explore life and the mysteries it presents, the passion to pursue my dreams - to have a greater understanding of myself.
Lunes, Disyembre 31, 2012
Linggo, Disyembre 30, 2012
Teardrop in the Cheeks of Time
White and resplendent in the cheeks of time
Silent, confident, serene specks of marble jewels
Eternally waiting for love lost
Beckoning in its pool of sparkling waters.
Dainty and mellow in the cheeks of time
Symbol of unending love
Pulsating life, giving life
Reflecting life in its gardens of lush pulchritude.
Beauty and strength in the cheeks of time
Embracing the longing heart
Screaming solitude in a sea of cacophony
Touching the hands of destiny.
Comfort and peace in the cheeks of time
Swaying with the breeze of constant change
Let rest be covered on those who lay
And suckle them that kiss your lips
To bathe in love that teardrop in the cheeks of time.
Silent, confident, serene specks of marble jewels
Eternally waiting for love lost
Beckoning in its pool of sparkling waters.
Dainty and mellow in the cheeks of time
Symbol of unending love
Pulsating life, giving life
Reflecting life in its gardens of lush pulchritude.
Beauty and strength in the cheeks of time
Embracing the longing heart
Screaming solitude in a sea of cacophony
Touching the hands of destiny.
Comfort and peace in the cheeks of time
Swaying with the breeze of constant change
Let rest be covered on those who lay
And suckle them that kiss your lips
To bathe in love that teardrop in the cheeks of time.
Sabado, Disyembre 29, 2012
The Meaning of Life
Man has for centuries searched for the meaning of life, of existence and of the universe. Throughout man's history these overarching themes habitually come about and indeed, has had a pivotal role in the shaping of religion, philosophy, history, civilization and science.
The search for meaning is best exemplified in the earliest periods of man's history through religion. Religion gave an explanation, at a time of uncertainly and difficulty, of the workings of the universe. Religion gave man hope as it showed that there is a higher being more powerful, more knowledgeable, more overarching than man could ever be. In the harsh reality of daily existence, religion served to connect man to the manifold mysteries of the universe. This religion has not always been as organized as it seems today. However, such became the fundamental basis of the eventual codification of the deeply held beliefs and practices.
As time moved on, man came to observe the organization of the things around him. He became more intrigued, more mesmerized, more inquisitive. He made it his goal to learn more and to discover more the workings of the universe. And so came the eventual birth of philosophy, indeed, the word comes from the Greek philein (love) and sophia (wisdom). Philosophy then became an activity for wisdom sake. In other words, it was a search for meaning.
The history of man and his civilization clearly manifests the paramount role of religion and philosophy in his life. Entire civilizations rose around a religion and a philosophy. The raison d'etre of much if not all, of human civilizations was not just the mere agglutination of men for survival, it was also a journey into the mystical. That is why the Ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Mayans, Aztecs to name but a few build monuments, specifically pyramids, as a bridge to the afterlife.
The rise of Western Philosophy to its heights in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries failed to satisfy, undoubtedly, man's yearning for a coherent and encompassing understanding of the universe. And philosophy's inability to provide a more coherent and clearer picture of existence gave rise to the eventual dominance and preeminence of science, especially the hard sciences of biology, physics and astronomy, into the frontiers of man's unending quest for the search for life's meaning.
Science offered a more credible alternative than religion and philosophy because it was based on reality itself, on experimentation and on a rigorous standards of research and processes.
We are at an amazing and radical juncture in man's history as the power of science to ever more clearly explain life and its origin become ever more clear, albeit still incomplete and full of uncertainties, there, in its most perplexing revelations, science reveals, that the meaning of life is still undoubtedly, man's to make.
The search for meaning is best exemplified in the earliest periods of man's history through religion. Religion gave an explanation, at a time of uncertainly and difficulty, of the workings of the universe. Religion gave man hope as it showed that there is a higher being more powerful, more knowledgeable, more overarching than man could ever be. In the harsh reality of daily existence, religion served to connect man to the manifold mysteries of the universe. This religion has not always been as organized as it seems today. However, such became the fundamental basis of the eventual codification of the deeply held beliefs and practices.
As time moved on, man came to observe the organization of the things around him. He became more intrigued, more mesmerized, more inquisitive. He made it his goal to learn more and to discover more the workings of the universe. And so came the eventual birth of philosophy, indeed, the word comes from the Greek philein (love) and sophia (wisdom). Philosophy then became an activity for wisdom sake. In other words, it was a search for meaning.
The history of man and his civilization clearly manifests the paramount role of religion and philosophy in his life. Entire civilizations rose around a religion and a philosophy. The raison d'etre of much if not all, of human civilizations was not just the mere agglutination of men for survival, it was also a journey into the mystical. That is why the Ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Mayans, Aztecs to name but a few build monuments, specifically pyramids, as a bridge to the afterlife.
The rise of Western Philosophy to its heights in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries failed to satisfy, undoubtedly, man's yearning for a coherent and encompassing understanding of the universe. And philosophy's inability to provide a more coherent and clearer picture of existence gave rise to the eventual dominance and preeminence of science, especially the hard sciences of biology, physics and astronomy, into the frontiers of man's unending quest for the search for life's meaning.
Science offered a more credible alternative than religion and philosophy because it was based on reality itself, on experimentation and on a rigorous standards of research and processes.
We are at an amazing and radical juncture in man's history as the power of science to ever more clearly explain life and its origin become ever more clear, albeit still incomplete and full of uncertainties, there, in its most perplexing revelations, science reveals, that the meaning of life is still undoubtedly, man's to make.
Huwebes, Disyembre 27, 2012
MOVIE REVIEW: The Tall Man
What seemed at first to be another psycho-thriller-slasher movie breaks one's preconceived notions of what entertainment can mean when you are watching it in the wee hours of a typhoon hounded morning. Nothing can seem more gripping, heart-pounding and teeth grinding than watching The Tall Man slowly unravel my paradigm of what a typical out-of-hollywood movie production can deliver, at least in the realm of gruesome nothingness thrown about in the field of the story, for the sake of the need to deliver gruesomeness. Instead, the viewer is faced with profound socio-economic-moral questions about responsibility, social justice, parenthood, dignity, right and conscience.
Julia Denning aspired to bring new life, a better life, to those children unlucky enough to be born into a life of deprivation, hopelessness and want. A pretend-life she led, indeed, sacrificing her own husband's and herself from living a normal life as a couple. The pervasive incidence of missing children in Cold Rock, British Columbia was for most seemingly senseless and brutal, an insult to an already grim life punctuated by poverty and hopelessness.
Julia's facade will eventually be taken down, and she held her own, sacrificing the truth, and in the process, ensuring her own inevitable confinement behind the walls of the prison, to secure forever the life she believes, and her organizations believes, the children deserve. Jenny Weaver, born to suffering, eventually unearths the enigma of the Tall Man and pleads Julia to be introduced to him. After Julia's imprisonment, Jenny was eventually taken by the Tall Man. The movie ends with Jenny, now with her "third mother", secure and seemingly content with her life. However, being older than the other kids taken, there is that nagging question lurking at the back of her mind, did she do the right thing? Jenny invites the viewers to answer her queries, but in fact, invites them to an even deeper question - do children have the right to be born to a secure life?
Julia Denning aspired to bring new life, a better life, to those children unlucky enough to be born into a life of deprivation, hopelessness and want. A pretend-life she led, indeed, sacrificing her own husband's and herself from living a normal life as a couple. The pervasive incidence of missing children in Cold Rock, British Columbia was for most seemingly senseless and brutal, an insult to an already grim life punctuated by poverty and hopelessness.
Julia's facade will eventually be taken down, and she held her own, sacrificing the truth, and in the process, ensuring her own inevitable confinement behind the walls of the prison, to secure forever the life she believes, and her organizations believes, the children deserve. Jenny Weaver, born to suffering, eventually unearths the enigma of the Tall Man and pleads Julia to be introduced to him. After Julia's imprisonment, Jenny was eventually taken by the Tall Man. The movie ends with Jenny, now with her "third mother", secure and seemingly content with her life. However, being older than the other kids taken, there is that nagging question lurking at the back of her mind, did she do the right thing? Jenny invites the viewers to answer her queries, but in fact, invites them to an even deeper question - do children have the right to be born to a secure life?
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