Thoughts To Provoke Your Thoughts
Provocative Thinking
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Self-Direction
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“The capacity for consistent self-direction, “wrote Bertrand Russell, “is one of the most valuable that a human being can possess.” Fortunat...
Jesus Promised
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Jesus promised: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh ...
Pseudo Family
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As it gradually dawned on me that I was habitually addressing a priest as “Father” and a nun as “Sister” and my teachers in La Salle as “Bro...
Bob Garon
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Bob Garon wrote: “We need to begin behaving like the Christian country that we are, not just in our religious rites. We need to stop being r...
Serve Jesus
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Bertrand Russell wrote: “The whole idea of throwing away your life blindly as an imagined service to Christ is a form of glorifying masochis...
Atheism
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Reason leads men to atheism because religion is absurd. The creator of the priesthood industry is a malicious and a ferocious God. Consider ...
Pat Robertson
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Pat Robertson, the famous American TV Evangelist, said: “Satan is a tool of God’s love in the sense that he forces us to see God’s loving pa...
Peace On Earth - a possibility
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The bow and arrow were once weapons of attack and defense with the aim to kill, but today the Art of Archery is a pure exercise in skill. Fe...
Death In Terms of Eternity
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In terms of eternity – human life is so short and in brief, a wink of an eye, a flash in the pan, a split of a second long on this speck o...
American Convicts
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In his book PERIL AND PROMISE, published in 1990, John Chancellor, one of America’s top TV newscasters, wrote: “America is losing its comp...
What Can Be Expected
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What can be expected of a poor and backward Christian country where its men and women, blessed with college education, are on their knees pr...
The Chinese People
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I have the greatest respect and admiration for the Chinese people. They were a great people with a great past. Today, owing to science and...
A Precious Book
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A book is a precious gift that you can open and read again and again. Not, however, among Filipinos. By any standard, the Philippines is not...
Inspired Bible Authors
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"The bible is a record of man's complete in sin and God's remedy in Christ." Philippine Star, August 12, 2014 If the auth...
It is Silly
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Why should reading a book written by inspired authors of God leave the reader feeling clammy and shivering. The Multiplication Table was wri...
Education more expensive
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There is a saying among University professors: if you think education is expensive, try ignorance. But as the existence of universities have...
Faith and Fear
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Whether faith proves stronger than fear or fear proves stronger than faith matters not a pin. Whatever the case may be, faith and fear form ...
Christian Love and Compassion in the Philippines
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I love the Philippines more than any other country in Asia, and for this reason, I cling to my right to often criticize her. In this connect...
Old Age
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Bertrand Russell said: “I consider old age a time to struggle for human decency – like any other.” Indeed, in his old age, he organized the...
Sunday, January 16, 2005
The Work In Congress
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The working Congressmen can best be described by visiting Philippine Congress at work: - Delivering useless, if not bombastic privilege spee...
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