Spinoza's free will compared to a Stone's trajectory

"Men think themselves free because they are conscious of their volitions and desires, but are ignorant of the causes by which they are led to wish and desire. Spinoza compared the feeling of free will to a stone's thinking as it travels through space, that it determines its own trajectory and selects the place and time of its fall." Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

America as in God Bless America

The men that American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest the most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. — H L Mencken ... Thus, the most successful of men in America have been the filthy-rich liars, cheaters, and religious leaders. Precisely the men who made what was once the United States is now called the "Disunited States of America" - The Republican Party under Donald Trump. Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

Most Facts are Brutal

"We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts." . . . John Dewey... And that is a brutal fact as most facts are brutal... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God Exists for What

"No matter what is in front of us, God is always behind us." Oct. 6, 2015 Philippine Star... What a lot hooey phooey inextricably mixed together with gooey and babooey. Who among you has ever met God existing behind you, in front of you, on the right or left of you, on top or below you, or in the middle of you? How is this possible since God is only always omniabsent. He is never omnipresent! In fact, if God exists, why should God bother to be behind you? To accomplish what for him or to accomplish what for you? Does God enjoy existing just to play sick games with himself for his greater glory in heaven? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

With God Nothing Shall be Impossible

For with God nothing shall be impossible. Luke 1:37. Oh yes, there is something impossible with God. Surely, it has been impossible with God to convince millions upon millions of Filipinos that they can and should read and study the bible for and by themselves. That they have no need of a sick religious moron, like Pastor Eli Soriano to read and interpret bible contents for them. . . But then again, on second thought, nothing has been impossible with God. Look how God as a Holy Spirit even got a young married Jewish girl pregnant to produce Jesus - the Savior of Filipinos in the Philippines - the only Christian country in Asia!... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Fear of the Lord

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.".. Prov. 1:7... NO, it is not. It is the beginning of a sick system of education as inspired by superstition more referred to as organized religion; Especially in the Philippines, the only Christian/Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Freedom as the greatest of Good

Most men, specially those with college education in the Philippines, never rise above to view things as objects of desire - hence their shallow-mindedness. But to see things purely as objects for critical analysis, indeed, for deeper understanding, is to rise to freedom. No doubt, freedom is the greatest of good; for without freedom, especially freedom of the mind and heart, the growth and the beauty of one's personality becomes impossible. Life and knowledge are today so complex, that only by free discussion can we pick our way through errors and prejudices to that total perspective which is the truth. Let men, let even theologians and politicians, teachers and professors differ and debate. Out of such diversity of opinions will come an intelligent relativity of belief which will not readily fly to arms; hatred and war come largely from fixed ideas or dogmatic faith. Freedom of thought and speech would go like cleansing drought through the brain of the "modern mind."Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Voice of Atheism

As an atheist, I say it again: In the end of it all, if human life were never about how to leave this world one day as a better place that how we arrived into it - none of us would have had any good reason to have lived at all... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

St. Francis of Assisi

St. Francis of Assisi abandoned a life of luxury for a life devoted to Christianity after reportedly hearing the voice of God, who commanded him to rebuild the Catholic church and live in poverty. He is the patron saint of the failures and the losers of this world. In the meantime, could any of you really imagine a God talking to a sick son of a rich man to rebuild the Catholic church? Why was the Church falling to begin with? What were the priests, the nuns, the bishops, and the cardinals, not to mention the popes doing with the church? And most of all - where was God himself to remedy the mess of the church? Indeed, if God could speak to St. Francis, why not also to the million members of the same church? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Sick Man of Asia and the Sick Man of the World

It must be a wonderful feeling for us Filipinos to know that we may be famous as the SICK MAN OF ASIA; but it is, nevertheless, a lesser evil compared to the Americans who are now even more famous as the SICK MAN OF THE WORLD. Indeed, we Filipinos hate other Filipinos for the glory of our divinity; but the Americans kill foreigners in foreign countries, and if that we not possible, Americans kill other Americans also for the sake of protecting their freedom and for defending their democracy... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Your Death is More Important to God than Your Birth

The trouble with eternal salvation with God in heaven; or, with eternal damnation with the devil in hell is that you can experienced either joke not after birth, but only after death... As if one can experience anything painful or anything delightful when one is already dead!... Indeed, after death, with what eyes will you see; with what ears will you hear; with what nose will you smell; with what mouth will you taste; with what skin will you feel; with what sexual organ will you enjoy the pleasures of sex; with what brain will you be able to enjoy the pleasures of reading great books? . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

King of Kings

"There is no greater privilege than to know the king of kings." Philippine Star, Oct. 2, 2015. This is BULLSHIT! There is no greater privilege than to know one's self. Indeed, the unexamined life is not worth living for man... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebok# Google#

Is atheism just another religion?

Atheism is not a religion. There are no holy atheist scriptures, no atheist holy bible, no atheist Pope and no atheist rituals, tenets, creeds, code, authority or ceremonies. Atheists come from every possible background, race and gender. They hold a variety of beliefs and convictions, and no two atheists will have exactly the same views or ideals other than their lack of belief in any gods. Atheists may disagree on many issues except one: none of us can ever disagree with the fact that when were born, coming out of mama's womb - we were all atheists. We did not believe in God. We had no religion. No baby is born a Catholic or Muslim or Jewish. All babies are atheists. Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Nature of God's Existence Depends on the Believer

If a triangle have to believe in the existence of God, such a God will have to have 3 sides. If an octagon have to believe in the existence of God, such as a God would have to have 8 sides. If a circle have to believe in the existence of God, such a God would have to be circular. If a human being believe in the existence of God, such as a God would have to be selfish, greedy, silly, stupid, and insane... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.". . . Richard Dawkins. . . For my part, I hate religion because it does not teach us about the beauty of life, on the contrary to a make mockery of life in this world. Poch Suzara

God To Do Better in Another World

I am not able to see why I should expect an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-mighty, and infinite God do better in another world than he does in this world. Especially with millions of poor and homeless Filipinos in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

So There Is a God, so what?

If someone, anyone were to prove to me - right this minute - that God, with all his grandiosity, luminosity, and pomposity, exists, it would not change me a bit. I would still value my self-respect as a man and cherish my sense of dignity as a human being. I will still be a happy and a proud atheist... After all, I have no need to believe in a lesser divinity. I am already proud and happy of the existence of a greater entity - my family, my country, and the whole of humanity. . .In the meantime, if God wants to have anything to do with me, He should deal directly with me and not via messenger boys such as via the sick authors of the sick bible. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Grade School Years in Catholic Schools in the Philippines

Grade school years in Catholic schools like in La Salle in the Philippines have more to do with learning how to pray than learning how to read courageously and how to write thoughtfully. . . It has more to do with stupid believing than children learning how to love more and deeper learning. Thus, for the most part, in schools, colleges, and universities there is no such thing as real system of education. There is only silly indoctrination. . . Millions upon millions of us Filipinos come out of schools, colleges, and universities not as well-informed, productive and creative citizens of our country, but only as faithful followers of a Catholic glory and moral authority. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The World seldom at Peace only always at War

"True peace is not the absence of war; it is the presence of God." Phil. Star, Sept 21, 2015 How deadly is the American military? It is difficult to measure how many enemy deaths American armed forces have inflicted... Americans and their allies typically cause 10 to 20 times more combat casualties than American forces suffer... Estimates of Iraqi soldiers killed in the Gulf War range from 1,500 to 100,000. The lowest figure would still be 10 times the number of Americans killed in the war... Approximately 850,000 Vietcong died in the Vietnam War, 18 times the 47,000 U.S. dead... More than 600,000 North Korean and 1 million Chinese fighters died in the Korean War, almost 50 times the 33,000 American dead... In World War II, 3,250,000 German and 1,507,000 Japanese soldiers, sailors, and pilots were killed, 16 times the 291,000 American servicemen who were killed. It is glaringly obvious, if not alarmingly stupid, that if God were only always omnipresent, never omniabsent - there would be more peace than wars in this world... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Atheists are Not Citizens of the USA - NO KIDDING?

"I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God." George H.W. Bush... Wow Mr. Bush, are you really that sick or just plain stupid? When you were born, coming out of your mama's womb, did you believe in God? You were an atheist just each and every one of us was born as atheists... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

There Goes Your Free Will

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.". . . . Proverbs 16:9 . . .There goes your free will you poor jerks and sick misguided saps. . . And to think that the LORD has far more important things to attend to in this sick world of ours other than just to attend to your silly steps going nowhere. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God Is Good. God is Great. And God is Almighty - No Kidding?

God is Good. God is Great. God is Almighty... Ted Failon ... I asked: if God is Almighty why would God need to inspire sick authors to write the sick holy bible that is filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, absurdities, obscenities, irregularities, barbarities, savageries, vulgarities, and atrocities? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Frisbeetarianism

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck... George Carlin... For my part, I would rather be a Frisbeetarian at any time than be a sick Presbyterian or a sick Lutheran. --- Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Difference Between an Intellectual and Spiritual

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has ts limits. --- Albert Einstein . . . The difference between being spiritual and being an intellectual is that the intellectual is always into fearless thinking and endless questioning; while the spiritual is only always into mindless believing, if not always into thoughtless praying! More to the point. An intellectual has purposes in life. The spiritual has only wishes!... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Christianity - the Religion for the Poor and the Sick

"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." Voltaire... Christianity has kept and still keeps millions of Filipinos poor and sick as a people living in a 3rd World country still hoping, waiting, and praying for a Savior to save the Philippines... In the meantime, science has already given much of the rest of Asia light, truth, and freedom from fear and ignorance. While in the Philippines, however, in this already 21st century is still stuck with Christianity - the religion of fear and ignorance... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Silly Believing

"You believe. You must never believe. You must criticize everything, accept nothing which you cannot prove to be true. Believing does not count, it is worth nothing. What counts is questioning. What matters is thinking. - Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

All of the gods are dead except the god of hate and war

"All gods are dead except the god of war." --- Eldridge Cleaver. . . Oh yes, the god of hate and war is still alive and kicking. Such is the god of the Industrial-military-university Complex of the USA... But let us not ignore the god of the Filipinos since the 16th century. Such a sick god is still here with us in this already 21st century seeing to it that we Filipinos remain poor and sick as a people; and, to remain poor and backward as a nation.--- Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Burning Books is a Great Crime

Burning books is a great crime. Not reading books is a greater crime. The greatest of crime, however, happens is our schools, colleges, and universities - they are places where millions of us Filipinos are taught to be not intelligent as readers of intelligent books down here; but to learn only how to be sick with our sick prayers to Almighty gooks up out there. Poch Suzara Twitter@ Facebook# Google#

Silence - The greatest of Crimes

"To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.". . . Ella Wheeler Wilcox. . . For my part, I said it before, I say it again: The greatest of crimes is the crime of silence. Never be afraid to raise your voice against dishonesty, lies, and deception, and corruption; especially against silent crimes inside the sick system of education. And the silent crimes among the sick politicians inside our government. If more and more of us Filipinos all over the Philippines would do this, we could begin to grow with self-respect enjoying health as a decent people; and begin to develop with dignity enjoying wealth as a decent nation... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Science and Christianity

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years... John Burroughs... Christianity, since the 16th century, has done more to keeping the Filipinos poor and sick as a people; and, to keeping the Philippines backward and corrupt as a nation. How? By keeping science, especially the scientific way of thinking historically out of schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines... In the meantime, let's take a closer look at our so-called "civilization.". . . There are of men and women today enrolled in the college of medicine to study how to become doctors to cure diseases, among them, to find the cure for cancer that continue to kill people all over the world day in and day out since centuries ago. However, there is not one college of medicine established anywhere in the world for men and women to learn how to cure a disease more deadly than cancer. The disease that's killing more people than cancer. It is known as "religion.". . . The disease has not stopped killing people specially in God's name... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Reality as a Grand Delusion

"Each unfolding reality contains the seeds of its own destruction, and the embryo of the new reality that will replace it... Jeremy Rifkin... If this were true then there is no such thing as "reality" being real; not something graspable anyway. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

RELIGION AS A DISEASE IS MORE DEADLY THAN ILLEGAL DRUGS

We all live in a sick and frightened world. Even the most highly educated of men and and women in the field of medicine - doctors and scientists - have been educated to be sick and frightened... They are sick and afraid to face and to deal in finding the cure for the deadliest of all diseases,- religion. It has killed far more people than illegal drufs . . Bertrand Russell summarized truthfully the horror in a few words: "We are all born ignorant, not stupid. We are made stupid by education.". . . For my part, as a high school expelled thinking student, my greatest enemy is not illegal drugs. It is sick  legal RELIGION - the deadliest of diseases -LEGAL  RELIGION has killed far more people than illegal drugs! In fact, RELIGION has destroyed far more minds and hearts than illegal drugs has destroyed the human body. Even my teachers in la Salle grade school and high school with their twisted minds and distorted hearts suffered more from mental diseases more known as CHRISTIANITY! ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Religion still Infested with so much Hate, not Love

Thanks to religion, this world, our world, is still infested with so much hate, not love; especially for the glory of God in heaven... Indeed, in this world, the more you suffer, the more you are told that God loves you more. Therefore hate, poverty, and suffering are good for the human soul since such horrors are the path toward to eternal salvation... For my part, I am an atheist; and, an atheist is a humanist who cares about this world. Our world. And if you religious morons believe that of me as a man full of hate and lies, that's your sick problem; not mine... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

My Son Bertie's Memory Work at the Age of 5

As a father to my son, I thought it is my responsibility to play a role in the education of my son in school. Here are some of the poems, songs, and great quotations that Bertie memorized as we walked together daily to his Kumon Math Sacred Heart school in Lorenzo Village and walking back home after school for lunch:--- Why is it that everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die?--- Life is a sexually-transmitted disease with a mortality rate of 100 per cent.--- Why bother to be born again, when you can just grow up?--- "If you tell a child that God made the world," he will usually ask: "then who made God?" If we reply, as the catechism states, "no one made God. He always was! Then why couldn't we just say about the world in the first place?"--- "They came with the bible, and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved." Pontiac--- One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came to kill the two dead boys. --- When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools.---Shakespeare To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Shakespeare --- The trouble with the rat race, even if you win, you are still a rat.--- I would like the Filipinos to be brilliant, enlightened, intelligent, ad progressive. - Jose Rizal--- SMILE Smile though your heart is aching Smile even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your fear and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow You'll see the sun come shining through for you Light up your face with gladness Hide every trace of sadness Although a tear may be ever so near That's the time you must keep on trying Smile, what's the use of crying? You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just smile That's the time you must keep on trying Smile, what's the use of crying? You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just smile. (written by Charlie Chaplin)--- "What A Difference A Day Makes" What a difference a day makes Twenty-four little hours Brought the sun and the flowers Where there used to be rain My yesterday was blue, dear Today I'm a part of you, dear My lonely nights are through, dear Since you said you were mine What a difference a day makes There's a rainbow before me Skies above can't be stormy Since that moment of bliss, that thrilling kiss It's heaven when you find romance on your menu What a difference a day made And the difference is you What a difference a day makes There's a rainbow before me Skies above can't be stormy Since that moment of bliss, that thrilling kiss It's heaven when you find romance on your menu What a difference a day made And the difference is you --- I'll BE SEEING YOU I'll be seeing you In all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day through In the small cafe, the park across the way The children's carousel The chestnut trees, the wishing well And I'll be seeing you In every lovely, summer's day And everything that's light and gay I'll always think of you that way I'll find you in the morning sun And when the night is new I'll be looking at the moon But I'll be seeing you I will find you in the morning sun And when the night is new I'll be looking at the moon But I'll be seeing you.--- Bertrand Russell Introductory Remarks of his Autobiography Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness – that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what – at last – I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.--- ON THE USES OF PHILOSOPHY "There is a pleasure in philosophy and a lure even in the mirages of metaphysics, which every student feels until the coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain. Most of us have known some golden days in the June of life when philosophy was in fact what Plato calls it, "that dear delight;" when the love of a modestly elusive truth seemed more glorious – incomparably -- than the lust for the ways of the flesh and the dross of the world. And there is always some wistful remnant in us of that early wooing of wisdom. "Life has meaning," we feel with Browning. "To find its meaning is my meat and drink." So much of our lives is meaningless, a self-canceling vacillation and futility. We strive with the chaos about and within, but we should believe all the while that there is something vital and significant in us, could we but decipher our own souls. We want to understand. "Life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with!" We are like Mitya in The Brothers Karamazov -- "one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions." We want to seize the value and perspective of passing things and so to pull ourselves up out of the maelstrom of daily circumstance. We want to know that the little things are little, and the things big, before it is too late. We want to see things now as they will seem forever -- "in the light of eternity." We want to learn to laugh in the face of the inevitable, to smile even at the looming of death. We want to be whole, to coordinate our energies by harmonizing our desires, for coordinated energy is the last word in ethics and politics -- and perhaps in logic and metaphysics, too. "To be a philosopher," said Thoreau, "is not merely to have subtle thoughts, or even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust." We may be sure that if we can but find wisdom, all things else will be added unto us. "Seek ye first the good things of the mind," Bacon admonishes us, "and the rest will either be supplied, or its loss will not be felt." Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.--- The Greatest Men Have Not been "Serene."--- "No, the greatest men have not been “serene.” They have had, it is true, an ultimate courage, a power of creating beauty where nature has put only horror, which may, to a petty mind, appear like serenity. But their courage has had to surpass that of common men, because they have seen deeper into the indifference of nature and the cruelty of man. To cover up these things with comfortable lies is the business of cowards; the business of great men is to see them with inflexible clarity, and yet to think and feel nobly. And in the degree in which we can all be great, this is the business of each one of us." Bertrand Russell--- READ, READ, and READ What we need in this country is not MORE faith, but more reason for the sake of spiritual growth. It means abandoning outworn beliefs and the welcoming of new and fresh ideas. We need to develop a deeper vision, to be willing to forsake our obsolete and shallow vision. The road to spiritual growth lies in distrusting what we already believe by deliberately challenging the validity of what we have been traditionally taught to hold dear and holy. We must learn to question everything. It is the basis of spiritual growth and intellectual maturity.--- We must therefore develop the habit of reading avidly and judiciously. I therefore say: read, read, and read. To begin to discover not only the beauty of rationality, but also the harmony of veracity. As we develop the habit of reading, especially books on the scientific way of thinking, we will never, ever again, be the foolish victims of mediocrity, or worse still – be the promoters of a sick society. However the case may be, those of us who refuse to read are no better off than those who can’t read at all. Poch Suzara

I stand on the Shoulders of Giants

It is with much pride and happiness for me to declare the debt I owe men and women of genius. Such as Bertrand Russell, Will Durant, Robert G. Ingersoll, George H. Smith, Tom Paine, Carl Sagan, M.H. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, Alvin Toffler, Howard Zinn, Joseph McCabe, Jean Meslier, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Jose Rizal, and Ruth Benedict, Madalyn Murray O"hair - the Founder of the American Atheist Association... If I am able to see higher, wider, longer, and deeper it is simply due to, if not the result of, the great writings of these great men and women of genius... In the meantime, I am ask: if I have been in charge of creation, what would I have created differently?... Well, firstly, after having created man and woman I would encourage them to enjoy not the freedom OF religion, but the freedom FROM religion... Secondly, I would make diseases not catching; instead, I would make health contagious... Thirdly, I would make not stupid BELIEVERS, but intelligent THINKERS as the main result of education in schools, colleges, and universities... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

There Is Nothing Definite as Everything is Tentative in Science

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. - - - Konrad Lorenz . . Indeed, Carl Sagan, put it this way: "The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths."

Isn't It Time for Us Filipinos to Wake Up

Let your life tell the story of Christ's love and mercy to the world around you. . . Phil Star, Aug. 25, 2015 . . . Ever since Christianity arrived in the 16th century to conquer the Philippines, we Filipinos have done virtually nothing but pray daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly for Christ's love and mercy. Today in this already 21st century, look at us Filipinos so poor and backward as a people, and so sick and corrupt and insane a nation. . . we are still stuck and praying harder daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly for Christ's love and mercy... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Lowly-Paid Employees as Teachers and Professors in the Philippines

My teachers in La Salle grade school and high school were not real teachers. They were lowly-paid employees of the Christians Brothers - the filthy-rich owners of De la Salle college. Indeed, like most schools, colleges, and universities own and operated by the catholic church... Education in our poor and backward country has nothing to do with acquiring knowledge and wisdom... It is mostly about learning how to be at home with faith in lies, deceptions, illusions, delusions, not to mention faith in human degradation; especially by ignoring the importance of the growth and development of civilization... I was so glad and happy that I got expelled out of La Salle high school. It was, in this way, that I managed, somehow, via self-education, to save not my sick soul; but to save instead my precious mind and heart to be useful in this world. Our world. . . Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

We Are A Nation of 5th graders

What is the current state of Philippine education? . . . “A nation of ‘fifth graders,’” the late Dr. Josefina R. Cortes, former dean of University of the East College of Education, said of our country that has long suffered from poor learning outcomes. . . Evidence of this is aplenty: Please see Philippine Daily Inquirer, Aug. 24, 2015. . . All these form part of the apoy sa ilalim and apoy sa ibabaw solutions that will help this country leapfrog from being a nation of fifth graders to a country of achievers and high-skilled professionals in the foreseeable future. . . . (Ricardo Ma. Duran Nolasco, PhD., is a faculty member of the Department of Linguistics of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.). . . For my part, as a high school expelled student of some 65 years ago, I said it before, I say it again: our sick system of education does not only reflect who are as a sick people, but also what we are as a sick nation. In this already 21st century, we are the only people in all of Asia who are still hoping, waiting, and praying for a Savior to save us from the horrors of our own sick values and sick beliefs; also to save us away from daily graft and corruption - while we are proud of our sick population explosion as inspired via our rejection of civilization! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Bertrand Russell is my Maker

Bertrand is my religion. Russell is my bible. Bertrand Russell is my Maker. Sadly, most men, like Angel Arando, are still stuck trying to understand the works of PEPE and PILAR, if not the works of JACK and JILL. . . Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

Bertrand Russell Introductory Remarks of his Autobiography

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness – that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what – at last – I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

LET'S GIVE AMERICA BACK TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS -THE NATIVE INDIANS

He assured the crowd, “Don’t worry, we’ll take our country back.” - Donald Trump. . .As an American citizen, I sure hope that you can take back AMERICA and give it back to the native American Indians - the original owners - the people we stole AMERICA from and justified our crime against humanity by singing out loud: GOD BLESS AMERICA. THE LAND OF THE FREE. THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. In the meantime, during these past three centuries, to be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time... James A.Baldwin . . . One can imagine how the Native Indians feel as the original owners of a continent now called - the United States of America... They are even more in a rage all the time... Indeed, what the White Christians did to the native Indians and then bring in tens of thousands of Black African slaves yearly to the USA is the greatest crime against humanity... No other country has been guilty of such barbarism. Such savagery! It is today asked: how does one begin to repair the emotional, psychological, and physical damage inflicted by kidnapping millions of members of Africa families, transporting them in chains across the Atlantic as they lay in their excrement, and for those who survived the trip to the New World, subjecting them to unimaginable horrors: scattering their family members, never to be rejoined again; persistently raping their women, such that almost all of their descendants are tainted with the blood of their captors and then lynching, torturing, and castrating their men, who dared to defy their brutal treatment... Legalized slavery occurred in the United States 1619 to 1865 or some (250) years and was followed by another century of legalized racial discrimination... In the meantime, slavery was not romantic; it was cruel,ferocious, brutal, and corrupting in all of its aspects. It was developed in its greatest degree of degradation in GOD BLESS AMERICA - land of the free and the home of the brave. . Raymond A, Winbush, Ph.D in his great book "SHOULD AMERICA PAY"(slavery and the raging debate on REPARATIONS) summarized the American horror: "Until America's white ruling class accepts the fact that the book never closes on massive unredressed social wrongs, America can have no future as one people."... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Our Sick Prayers As Inspired by our Sick Theology

"In the Middle Ages, when pestilence appeared in a country, holy men advised the population to assemble in churches and pray for deliverance; the result was that the infection spread with extraordinary rapidity among the crowded masses of supplicants. This was an example of love without knowledge. The late war afforded an example of knowledge without love. In each case, the result was death on a large scale." - - - Bertrand Russell 

In the Philippines, in this already 21st century, instead of taking advantage of the beauty behind science, and the power behind technology that's been elevating other Asian nations into higher growth, better development, and general prosperity, - we Filipinos are still with our sick prayer under a sick theology inside churches and cathedrals. The result thus far is that we Filipinos are only enjoying the greatest of miracles: we Filipinos are getting more and more famous throughout the world as the SICK MAN OF ASIA down here for the greater glory of Jesus up there! - Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

It's the Devil who Manages this World for God

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going. . . Tristan Bernard. . . And if I may add, it is the devil together with the apostles, disciples, and followers of Christ who keep this world going. . . After all, there is always BIG MONEY to be made in the religion business. . . Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

WE NEED MORE HOUSING TENEMENTS THAN CHURCHES AND CATHEDRALS

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. - - - Madalyn Murray O'Hair. . . In the Philippines, an atheist like me, would like to see more HOUSING TENEMENTS creatively established around the country than see more churches and cathedrals established in the already God-forsaken, poor, and backward country. - - - In fact, I would like to see such HOUSES OF GOD converted to HOUSING facilities for the millions of poor Filipinos are who homeless living in the streets of our major cities... Indeed, transform those churches and cathodrals - monuments to human stupidity into monuments to human sanity. . .Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Jesus is Coming

"Jesus is Coming. - Perhaps Today." Philippine Star, Aug. 16, 2015. . . Well, after more than 2,000 years of coming, what will it matter whether Jesus is coming or just passing through going to be reunited once again with His Jewish people - the CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Difference Between Knowledge and Wisdom

Difference Between Wisdom and Knowledge . . . Wisdom vs Knowledge . . . research by: Poch Suzara Wisdom and knowledge are common words in English language. We equate knowledge with books and teachings, and at classrooms, teachers tell us a lot about knowledge. But wisdom is much more than knowledge as it is an abstract attribute that is not found in every man who is knowledgeable. Are you not convinced still? Continue reading, as this article attempts to highlight the differences between knowledge and wisdom. We are not born with all the facts and information that we assimilate into our brain as we grow up. We are taught many concepts at school, and our teachers make us understand things that expand our knowledge base. The knowledge that hydrogen and oxygen molecules add up to make water is knowledge. The fact that the water in our oceans and rivers is the same that comes back in the form of rainfall is again knowledge. We can be made to know everything about water, including its properties and features, but we never know it in its entirety unless we drink and know its taste. Knowledge All the facts and information about things, people, places and cultures of the world constitute a knowledge base that we build up as we learn a lot first from our parents and later at school from our teachers. We learn how to behave without elders and react in different situations as per societal norms. All this is referred to as the knowledge that we gain in our life. Wisdom Wisdom is the application of knowledge in real life situations to obtain desired results. Thus, the ability to apply knowledge in easy to tough situations refers to knowledge. Wisdom comes from experience. You may know how to open the lock of a car. This is certainly knowledge though one that is not desirable. However, wisdom says never to apply this knowledge or else you may have to serve in prison. Wisdom comes from wise, and so wise men have wisdom. But wisdom is a trait that does not come with knowledge alone. It comes with a mixture of knowledge and experience. What is the difference between Wisdom and Knowledge? • Wisdom is a quality or an attribute while knowledge is the state of knowing. • One gains knowledge by knowing facts and information while the ability to apply such knowledge for the benefit of all is wisdom. • Wisdom comes with age and experience it is said; this is the reason upper chamber of legislature consists of older men. • Knowing how to steal a car is knowledge but not applying this knowledge is wisdom. In the meantime, we atheists have no knowledge of God. We only have wisdom when it comes to God. We do not, we will not, and we will never believe in the existence of a God or Gods because we have the knowledge of nothing about God. We do not even know whether God is a HE, a SHE, or an IT! Or, if God created the universe some 14 Billion years ago, is such a God still alive today already 14 Billion years old?. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

I love Thinking. I hate Believing

"At this present day, religion, as embodied in the Churches, discourages honest thinking, in the main, and gives importance to things that are not important." --- Bertrand Russell - - - For my part, as an atheist, I love thinking. I hate believing. My standing up for humanity is far more important to me than believing and kneeling down to a silly divinity... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

FREE WILL versus FREE MIND

“It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.” - - - Robert G. Ingersoll- - - Well, what is even more absurd is that God gifted you with a free will to do just that... For my part, I treasure more my free mind than I do my free will. . . a Free mind has more to do with the growth and development of one's sanity. Free will has only to do with the growth and development of one's insanity... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Evils of Americans in God Bless America

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time... James A.Baldwin . . . One can imagine how the Native Indians feel as the original owners of a continent now called - the United States of America... They are even more in a rage all the time... Indeed, what the White Christians did to the native Indians and then bring in tens of thousands of Black African slaves yearly to the USA is the greatest crime against humanity... No other country has been guilty of such barbarism. Such savagery! It is today asked: how does one begin to repair the emotional, psychological, and physical damage inflicted by kidnapping millions of members of Africa families, transporting them in chains across the Atlantic as they lay in their excrement, and for those who survived the trip to the New World, subjecting them to unimaginable horrors: scattering their family members, never to be rejoined again; persistently raping their women, such that almost all of their descendants are tainted with the blood of their captors and then lynching, torturing, and castrating their men, who dared to defy their brutal treatment... Legalized slavery occurred in the United States 1619 to 1865 or some (250) years and was followed by another century of legalized racial discrimination... In the meantime, slavery was not romantic; it was cruel,ferocious, brutal, and corrupting in all of its aspects. It was developed in its greatest degree of degradation in GOD BLESS AMERICA - land of the free and the home of the brave. . Raymond A, Winbush, Ph.D in his great book "SHOULD AMERICA PAY"(slavery and the raging debate on REPARATIONS) summarized the American horror: "Until America's white ruling class accepts the fact that the book never closes on massive unredressed social wrongs, America can have no future as one people."... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

I too Have a Dream

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." . . . Martin Luther King, Jr... For my part, I too have a dream: that all but all of the children in this world will grow up with the power of knowledge and wisdom that have absolutely nothing to do with the insanity behind God's kingdom... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

WHY AM I HAPPY

"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed." . . . Bertrand Russell . . . With me, I am happy because I hate with a passion the sick system of education in the Philippines. The evil, historically, keeps us spiritually frightened as a people, and culturally unenlightened as a nation. Indeed, we are all born ignorant, not stupid. We are made stupid via a stupid system of education! Look at us Filipinos as a people in this day and age, in this already 21st century: we only know how to love God up there by hating one another and by hating our own country down here!... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

We Need To be civilized, Not Terrorized as a People

"Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." ... H.L. Mencken . . . Sadly, under our sick system of education, catholic schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines teach Filipinos not how to doubt, but only what to believe. Thus, we are hardly civilized as a nation; only religiously terrorized as a people.. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

REVEALED TRUTH IN THE BIBLE

Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. Isaiah 46:9 . . . Could any of you really believe that God needed to inspire his sick authors to write such sick nonsense as a REVEALED TRUTH about God in the HOLY BIBLE? . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Jesus Christ our savior and Jose Rizal out national hero

"Only Jesus can fill us with a sense of belonging like we've never known before." ... Philippine Star, Aug.8, 2015. . . Wow, you editors of Philippine Star, do you really know what you are talking about? Listen to Jesus in the so-called Holy Bible: "IF ANY MAN COME TO ME AND HATE NOT HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, WIFE AND CHILDREN, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND YE, HIS OWN LIFE ALSO, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE." Luke 14:26... In our way of daily life in the Philippines, isn't enough that we Filipinos, historically, all love Jesus up there by hating each other down here? What more is there to know about Jesus who, crucified on the cross, cried out loud: 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?" Matt. 27:46 . . .

 For my part, as a Filipino atheist, I would rather fill my sense of belonging to my country together with what our greatest hero - Dr. Jose Rizal - had the greatest hope for me as a Filipino: “I would like the Filipinos to be brilliant, enlightened, intelligent, and progressive.” . . .Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Four Kinds of Pests in the Philippines

"It has been said that the three kinds of a community are: A priest without charity; a doctor without knowledge; and a lawyer without a sense of justice." ... Robert G. Ingersoll. . . In the Philippines, there is the 4th pest: a government without government ability to lead the Filipino people - the Sick Man of Asia into becoming the healthiest and the wealthiest Man of Asia... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The real Owners of America

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....” ― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good . . . I watched on TV the Republican debate. It was no debate but a declaration by the participants in how and why AMERICA should continue to be a great nation populated not by healthy and enlightened thinkers, but only by sick and frightened believers. It is the same old sick song: GOD BLESS AMERICA TOGETHER WITH HER CAPITALISM, TERRORISM, AND MILITARISM BEHIND INDUSTRIALISM!. . . In the meantime, in America, it does not matter who you vote for . The two parties are really one party representing the few filthy-rich and the powerful criminals... They are not the majority, but the minority as the real owners of America! --- Poch Suzara, Thoughts to Provoke Your Thoughts... Twitter# Facebook# Google#

2 PLUS 2 IS NOT ALWAYS 4

2 plus 2 = 4 is not true all the time because sometimes 2 plus 2 can be 3. Look at 2 persons plus 2 persons equals 4 persons. Well, what about 2 fathers plus 2 sons, how many persons? They can be only 3 persons - the grandfather, the father, and the son: the grandfather and the father are 2 fathers; the father and the son are 2 sons. And yet there are only 3 persons involved as seen through behind the power of mathematics reduced into the beauty behind logic! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Mark of An Educated Mind

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle - one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC). . . In the Philippines, it is the mark of as educated mind of a Filipino who is able to pray to Jesus for the forgiveness of their sick sins and silly crimes. Poch Suzara, a la Salle high school expelled student some 65 years ago. Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Sick Traffic Mess in the Streets of our Major Cities

Recently, a high government officials declared: "Ours is a growing and a developing nation." I ask: with college-educated law-makers together with college-educated law-enforcers -`how come they are not able to fix the traffic mess in the streets of our major cities caused by millions of cars, buses, jeeps, trucks, motorcycles, tricycles, and bicycles, indeed, vehicles not made in the Philippines but all imported from foreign countries - how could we ever be a growing as a people and a developing as a nation? Indeed, we do not even have the capacity to manufacture our own vehicles, but we do do not even how to keep the streets of our major cities clean and orderly under health and sanitation! Not to mention free from squatters sleeping, cooking, eating, pooing, peeing, and indeed even breeding babies in the streets of our major cities? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Evil More Known as the Sick System of Education in the Philippines

One man believes in Christianity... Another believes in Islam... The horror distinguishing them. When, however, both believe the Multiplication Table, provided they believe correctly, there is no difference between them...Thus, the sick and the irrational separate us. The sane and the rational unite us... Now take a good look at schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines as own and operated by the Catholic church. They teach not what should unite us as a people; but teach only what keeps us divided as a nation... In this way, we Filipinos continue to be not the well-informed as educated citizens of our country; but only to be the servants, employees, and the victims of the powers-that-be - the corrupt and the few filthy rich - the real owners of the Philippines! Millions upon millions Filipinos as products as schools, colleges, and universities have their souls saved; but at the expense of something far more precious - their minds twisted and their hearts distorted with sick religious values and beliefs. In the meantime, in this already 21st century, we Filipinos are only getting more famous throughout the world as the SICK MAN OF ASIA. Especially as we continue to be educated to believe that only after death should we enjoy a happy and decent life with God and with Jesus and his apostles in heaven! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Existence of God - PROVE IT

If God, in order to exist, has no need of a creator, why should the universe need to be created by a creator? - We atheists simply reject YOUR claims (okay, having a good laugh at them too), which shouldn't be inconceivable considering the lack of evidence you have to support said claims. But, you can squash this; all you have to do is PROVE IT. Meanwhile, why bother praying to: OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN? As if you seriously know where heaven is located? Well, why not pray to: OUR GOD WHO ART ON EARTH? We all know where earth is located, but where is God on earth? Where is God in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century! As usual God is only always OMNI-ABSENT, NEVER OMNI-PRESENT! Or, even more ticklish - God only loves to play HIDE AND SEEK GAME like children do love to play said game at any time. For my part, I do not believe in the existence of God because, to begin with, God is unbelievable! I do not see why there is the need first to mutilate my mind and heart in order to prove the existence of God. I never experienced such horrors in believing in the existence of the sun! The sun never threatened to burn me forever inside the sun if I doubted its existence! I love the sun; more important, I respect the sun. The sun has no need of apostles or disciples or followers to reveal to me the truth about the existence of the sun! It is self-evident not only to the majority, but also to the minority!... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Better Life in the Herafter

There is no law of nature guaranteeing that mankind should be happy. Everybody can see that this is true here on earth, but by a curious twist, our very suffering in this life are made into an argument for a better life hereafter. - Bertrand Russell. . . In the meantime, sick as it is always sick, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. - Poch Suzara

Sick Men In Defense of a Sick God

If there is a God existing as all-knowing and all-powerful, why would he need you to waste your energies in his defense? Indeed, here's a thought for you: if such a God could create a place called "heaven" for the joys, pleasures, and happiness of people to live in, why bother to create a place called "hell" for people to suffer in pain forever? Such a God, to me, is a sick God not worth fearing! Such a God is only worth rejecting! I asked it before, I ask it again: Who can over estimate the growth and development of civilization of a nation if all the money wasted in superstition could be used instead to educate, enlighten, and elevate the standard of living and thinking of all Filipinos in the Philippines? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

We Are Still Into a Sick Religion Under a Sick Holy Bible

Almost all the progress in the world from the earliest time to the present is attributable to science and technology. Almost all the major ills such as social insanity, political stupidity, and economic perversity are attributable to religion and theology. Indeed, without science no poor country, like the Philippines, can ever extricate herself out of poverty. Sadly, in the Philippines, in this already 21st century, we are still pretty much stuck with our sick religion as a people; and, still pretty much stuck with the sick holy bible as a nation. Even our politicians in our system of corrupt government are into daily prayers still asking God for the forgiveness of their sins and crimes. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The power of Prayer in the Philippines

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." Matthew 7:7. . . I ask: have any of you ever met a Filipino who got to be FILTHY RICH for NOT believing in the power of prayer to Jesus?.. . So how come millions upon millions of Filipinos are FILTHY POOR for believing in the power of prayer to Jesus?. . . In the meantime, we are often told that God loves not only the Catholics, but also loves the Christians, the Muslims, the Iglesia ni Cristo members, including the most pathetic of televangelists like Pastor Eli Soriano, Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, Pastor Mike Velarde, Pastor Eddie Villanueva, Pastor Eduardo Manalo, etc in the Philippines. Sadly, however, God does not love the millions upon millions of poor Filipinos still praying hard daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly for a Savior to save them! Golly, even in our schools, colleges, and universities - what is mostly taught to us is HOW TO PRAY TO GOD!. . . In the meantime, the filthy rich politicians in our corrupt government together with the filthy rich theologians in our corrupt church are only more involved and interested in how to become filthy richer! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God Loves You - NO KIDDING?

"Knowing that God loves you can dispel doubts." ... Philippine Star, Aug, 1, 2015... Since God is always OMNI-ABSENT, never OMNI-PRESENT, how do you know that God loves you. You do not even know God - how do you know that God loves you? Or, now that God loves you, you are free from diseases that causes old age and death? You will now live forever. No kidding? ... More than 100 billion people already lived and died on this earth since Adam and Eve, what makes you special to make God love you? . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Kingdom of God

Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21. . . Well, I say, if the kingdom of God is within you, why bother to go to heaven? Isn't it silly enough that everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die? And what is even sillier is that nobody knows, not even the theologians know where heaven is located; not to mention how do any of us travel to heaven after we are dead? . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Silliest of Men

The silliest of men are those who know absolutely nothing about the existence of God and yet they are among the first to get angry at those who do not believe what they know not what they are talking about, viz; the existence of God. Even my parents at home and my teachers in school were guilty of such childish nonsense! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Freedom of Simple Information

The freedom of information is precious; but the freedom to correct false information is more precious. Indeed, what's even far more precious is to simplify what's complicated, and not complicate the simple. In the ultimate analysis a man of dignity and self-respect is the man who loves not silly revelation, but scientific information. . . And here's the insanity behind scientific information: it is always subject to change or emendation as the need arises due to new evidences. Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

Oh God, My Dear God, is it hard for you to Sing this great Song

If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of spring Every heart would have a new song to sing And we'd sing of the joy every morning would bring If I ruled the world, every man would be as free as a bird Every voice would be a voice to be heard Take my word we would treasure each day that occurred My world would be a beautiful place Where we would weave such wonderful dreams My world would wear a smile on its face Like the man in the moon has when the moon beams If I ruled the world every man would say the world was his friend There'd be happiness that no man could end No my friend, not if I ruled the world Every head would be held up high There'd be sunshine in everyone's sky If the day ever dawned when I ruled the world Wow God, centuries go you sang this great song and you still are singing this same old rotten song in this century:" I form the light and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do these things." - Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Thought to Provoke Your Thought on my Coming Death

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” --- Mark Twain... Me too, I do not fear death. Billions of years before I was born, I was happy and peaceful existing as a nothing. I did not then have anything to do with a sick God in hell or in heaven who promised me that If I obeyed his commandments I will be saved to enjoy eternal salvation later after death in his kingdom!. . . In the meantime, there is no such thing as life after death. Even the bible says so. Please read:"The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward for the memory of them is forgotten." Eccl. 9:5... In the meantime, the whole root of our troubles in life is that we have needlessly sacrificed all the beauty of our lives by incarcerating ourselves with totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, beliefs, values, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have... For my part, both as a Filipino and an American citizen, I have settled the sick issue with one simple blow - I have learned to live not by kneeling down, but by standing up... That there is more to life than just stupid believing... There is something more precious - intelligent thinking. Especially to put more beauty into this world where nature has put only horrors... To leave this world a better place that how we found it; not necessarily in the material, but in the humanitarian - sense!. . . And in the degree where we can all be great that is the business of each and everyone of us!... Indeed, what is a man, what has he got, if not himself, then he has not, to say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels, let the record show, I took the blows, and did it MY WAY! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Winning the Presidency is 99% Prayer

"Winning the PRESIDENCY is 99% prayer." VP JEJOMAR BINAY . . . I said it before, I say it again: none of our past president was an atheist. they all believed and had faith in God. In fact, they believed in God as God could forgive them of their sins and crimes; especially with the power of power. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Jose Rizal and Pope Leo X111

"The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its ends when rebels against it disturb the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics who cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to disturb ecclesiastical order.". . . Pope Leo X111 ( 1878-1903
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My Dear Jose Rizal, wherever you are, we the Filipino heretics, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, humanists, secularists, and unbelievers of the faith - we all love you. We all respect and admire you, and we all miss you. . . Thank you sir for playing a seminal role in disturbing the ecclesiastical order in the Philippines! If only schools, colleges, and universities in our country have been teaching the truth about you as being the greatest Filipino freethinker ever, millions of Filipinos today need no longer be living under the authority of ecclesiastical order! Indeed, living under a sick and insane theocracy masquerading as freedom and democracy!. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Power of Prayer Not to Heal but to Kill

"In the Middle Ages, when there was an epidemic, people crowded into churches to pray, thinking that their piety would move God to take pity on them; in fact the crowd in ill-ventilated building provided ideal conditions for the spread of the infection... Bertrand Russell... In the Philippines, the most destructive typhoon Yolanda in the Eastern Visaya destroyed billions of pesos worth in farm land, properties, and assets such as homes, hotels, schools, commercial and residential buildings, hospitals, roads and bridges, and also the death of thousands of innocent Filipinos. Quite a lot of them, as inspired by the power of prayer, went inside damaged or ruined churches to pray for deliverance. Instead, they experienced the activated horrors of nature in their respective provinces
as willed by God's divine plan. . . - Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

All Thinking Men and Women are Atheists

All thinking men and women are atheists. If you are always afraid to think, the most that you can be, in this world, is to be a mindless sap, if not a thoughtless jerk, or worst, a frightened follower. Most of my teachers in La Salle grade school and high school were, sadly, not intelligent thinkers; they were sick believers! Even more sadly, they were not genuine teachers. They were lowly-paid employees pretending to be teachers earning a living! Teachers are the promoters of civilization, not the custodians of revelation! I expelled myself out of La Salle because I did not care to be a sick believer. I wanted to be a healthy thinker by being an avid reader, especially of banned books! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

All Thinking Men and Women

All thinking men and women are atheists. If you are always afraid to think, the most that you can be, in this world, is to be a mindless sap, if not a thoughtless jerk, or worst, a useless nerd. . . Most of my teachers in La Salle grade school and high school were, sadly, not intelligent thinkers. They were sick believers... Even more sadly, they were not genuine teachers; they were lowly-paid employees pretending to be teachers trying to earn a living... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God in the Philippines

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters. . . H. L. Mencken. . . In the Philippines, however, God is the perpetual SAVIOR of our corrupt politicians behind our corrupt system of government. Specially as these criminals are already rich and filthy, but they want to be richer in order to be filthier! Poch Suzara Twitter@ Facebook@ Google#

Religion and Politics as the Greatest Producers of Criminals in this World

The richest, most powerful, and influential criminals in the world come from sick religion and from sick politics. Both have always been and still are in cahoots together. They mutually keep their followers under them ignorant at best; frightened at worst. It is only in this way that these criminals, as they are the criminals behind the church; and the criminals behind the government enjoy their power, glory, and authority down here; especially as perpetually blessed by God up there. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

THE NEED FOR GOD TO PLAY GOD OVER PAIN AND SUFFERING

For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me. - Matthew 25:35-36. . . Wow God,and you created me so that in my sufferings, trials, and tribulations you can play a God to me? Wow God, are you really that sick considering you are already a supernatural Sap? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

ATHEISM

"Atheism enjoys an amazing and diverse collection of intelligent, unique, interesting, and often hilarious voices. Using atheist quotes and sayings from a variety of sources, the Atheist Republic designers create visually rich expressions of atheist thought from around the globe. We draw from lectures, books, Twitter feeds, blogs, Facebook pages and more. You will find quotes and sayings from academics, scientists, authors, celebrities, musicians and others. These images provide a way to easily share ideas and engage in interesting debates online. Our atheism quotes are a great way to share thought provoking views throughout all your social networks." For my part, if I had not successfully gotten myself expelled out of high school, I will still be TODAY a faithfool moron, if not a sick believer, or a superstitious jerk, or an idiot looking for money instead of searching of the truth! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Democracy as a Theocracy in the Philippines

Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses... H.L. Mencken . . . In the Philippines, our democracy is a really a theocracy: It is the love of ignorance, and the worship of fear, and the respect for what is not worth respecting... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Living the fear of Life is Man's greatest of tragedies

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. . . Nick Fatool Oh my dear Nick Fatool, I have no fear of either life or death. I am an atheist and therefore, rightly or wrongly, I am in control of my own destiny... It has more to do with my hopes of leaving this world one day as a better place than I found it; not necessarily in the material, but in the humanitarian, - sense. In other words, after death, I do not care to meet with God in HELL... I do not care to meet the devil in HEAVEN... I also do not care to meet Jesus together with his disciples, apostles, followers, and believers in PURGATORY... After my death, I look forward to existing peacefully again as a NOTHING. Just exactly like the way I existed peacefully for millions of years as a nothing before birth... In the meantime, it is truly sad and pathetic... A lot of my friends, relatives, associates, classmates, and schoolmates have already died on this earth... The problem is that they have NOT yet been buried. They still pretend to be alive; specially by praying daily to Jesus to forgive them of their sins and crimes while we, as Filipinos, are only getting more sick aimless as a people, and the Philippines is only getting rudderles going no where as a nation! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Energy Can Never be Created or Destroyed

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” - - - Albert Einstein So when God inspired His authors to write in the holy bible - IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND EARTH - in the beginning from which ENERGY? Or, to be more precise, if God created space and time, where was God located before he created SPACE, and when was it before He created TIME. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Respect For the Truth

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. . . Bertrand Russell. . . Never have I ever heard from any of my teachers in La Salle grade school and high school openly and proudly admit such respect for the search of the truth; especially as it is man's most noble of professions... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

H. L. Mencken on Religious Beliefs

H. L. Mencken’s Religious Beliefs As for religion, I am quite devoid of it. Never, in my adult life, have I experienced anything that could be plausibly called a religious impulse. My father and grandfather were agnostics before me and, although I was sent to Sunday School as a boy and exposed to the Christian theology, I was never taught to believe it. My father thought that I should learn what it was, but it apparently never occurred to him that I would accept it. He was a good psychologist. What I got in Sunday School – beside a wide acquaintance with Christian hymnology – was, simply, a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian god preposterous. Since that time, I have read a great deal in theology – perhaps much more than the average clergyman – but I have never discovered any reason to change my mind. The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems, to me, to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves grovelling before a Deity who, if He really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected. I see little evidence, in this world, of the so-called goodness of God. On the contrary, it seems to me that, on the strength of His daily acts, He must be set down a most cruel, stupid, and villainous fellow. I can say this with a clear conscience, for He has treated me very well – in fact, with vast politeness. But, I can’t help thinking of His barbaric torture of most of the rest of humanity. I simply can’t imagine revering the God of war and politics, theology and cancer. I do not believe in immortality and have no desire for it. The belief in it issues from the puerile egos of inferior men. In its Christian form, it is little more than a device for getting revenge upon those who are having a better time on this earth. What the meaning of human life may be, I don’t know: I incline to suspect that it has none. All I know about it is that, to me at least, it is very amusing, while it lasts. Even its troubles, indeed, can be amusing. Moreover, they tend to foster the human qualities that I admire most – courage, and its analogues. The noblest man, I think, is that one who fights God and triumphs over Him. I have had little of this to do. When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever. – an extract from a letter H. L. Mencken wrote to Will Durant in 1931. The letter was published in On the Meaning of Life, edited by Will Durant (New York: Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, 1932). In 1931, Will Durant asked various public figures to contribute their opinions on the meaning of life, as they understood it. Their responses were published in the volume documented above. H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a journalist, literary and social critic, and author. Will Durant (1885-1981) was a historian of Western Civilization and author... Poch Suzara

Character Versus Faithful Believers

"Character is the sum total of all our thought, words, and deed." ... Philippine Star, July 20,2015... Character is what schools, colleges, and universities produce. However, in the Philippines, under a sick system of education, what is more produced is not character, but faithful believers - the sum of total of all that can be described as the combination of mediocrity, stupidity, and insanity for the sake of maintaining and supporting Christianity! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Merger of the Evils of Communism and the Evil of Capitalism in China

The way to combat Communism is not war. What is needed in addition to such armaments as will deter Communists from attacking the West, is a diminution of the grounds for discontent in the less prosperous parts of the non-communist world. Communism is a doctrine bred of poverty, hatred and strife. Its spread can only be arrested by diminishing the area of poverty and hatred. . . . Bertrand Russell, Portraits From Memory And Other Essays, 1952. . . Oh my dear Bertrand Russell, surprisingly, Communism has been arrested due to, if not because of the guts and gumption, indeed, the rarity of human intelligence shown by the Chinese thinking government leadership: they managed to perform the greatest miracle in the world ever: they merged the evils of communism and the evils of capitalism together. China is the richest and most powerful economy in the world today. Almost 90 per cent of products consume by the whole wide world today is made in China! And to think ATHEISM is most prevalent in China as she has been an atheist nation since the 11th century!. . . Poch Suzara, Thoughts to provoke Your Thoughts, 2015... Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Filipinos can Never Afford to be Atheists

The Filipinos will never reject God or will ever deny His existence. Not in a million years. We Filipinos need God to forgive us of our sins and our crimes. No doubt, after the forgiveness of our sins and crimes, there is also the promise of a reward more known as "eternal salvation in heaven." All if takes to win it is MONEY. Lots of MONEY!

The Farce of the Law in the Philippines

There is no such thing as the force of the law in the Philippines. There is only the farce of the law; specially as enforced by corrupt lawmakers legally defended and protected in court by the corrupt Filipino lawyers in cahoots with corrupt judges in court. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Flexibility of the Man's Mind

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes --- As for me, I repeat: after having discovered the sanity and the beauty behind atheism, never, could I have ever, all over again, embrace the insanity or the childish pomposity behind theism. In the truest sense of the phrase: I would rather be a born-again atheist. Indeed, no child is born a Catholic or Muslim or Jew or Hinduist. All babies are born as atheists - without religion!- Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

A Life of Fear versus a Life of Courage

The idea of life in general in the Philippines as we are products of schools, colleges, and universities is to live a life of fear. Show to your friends, relatives, and associates that you would rather live a life of courage is something of a scandal, a horror, or a sin against God... Indeed, one of the greatest joys in life is to think what most people say you should never think about. But here's one tragedy in life most thoughtless people do not realize: if you do not build your own dreams, someone else will hire you to build theirs. --- Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Jesus was Not a catholic nor His Apostles were Christians

When Jesus called his 12 apostles together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. Luke 9:1. . . Also, Jesus commissioned his disciples to "make disciples of all nation." Matt. 28:29. . . So how come the land where Jesus was born is still today not a catholic nor a Christian country? It is still a Jewish State. Indeed, I further asked: how come in the whole of Asia, only the Philippines got to be converted by the apostles of Jesus to be the only Catholic country in Asia, but not all Filipinos got be baptized Catholics. But with the power from Jesus, as the Son of God - how come we Filipinos have never been healed, specially as we are still famous as the SICK MAN OF ASIA? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

What's up?

You you saps and jerks, you only want to know "what's up." With me, I also want to know what's down, what's near, what's far, what's on the left side, what's on the right side, what's in the middle, what's in the back, what's in front, what's coming, what's going, what's still alive, what is already dead? ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

What About Improving the standard of thinking of the Filipinos as a Poeple

Notice our sick and corrupt politicians as officials in the government. All you hear from them is about the economy - how it should improve or it is already improving or that we need to improve the economy. Never, do we ever, hear from any of these college educated morons about improving Filipino standard of thinking to enjoy more self-respect as a people and to enjoy more dignity as a nation. In the meantime, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly way of life in the Philippines in general can be described as the Filipinos always in competition to be the criminal or be the victim of the criminals... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Begin with Stupidity

"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties." . . . Francis Bacon . . . Oh my dear Francis Bacon, in the schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines, sorry to say, we do not begin with certainties. We begin with stupidity and end up even more stupid; specially for the doubtful glory of God and His Son Jesus in heaven... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

NOTHING IS RIGHT. EVERYTHING IS WRONG

Anything you do in this life in this world, enjoy it. Be happy; especially by making others also happy. In the end, no matter what you do or do not do, it will turn out to wrong anyway. Bobby Regala... I entirely agree with my friend Bobby Regala - one of the few friends I could not help but respect and admire. He was a courageous thinker; not a frightened believer... Indeed, if each unfolding reality contains the seeds of its own destruction, and the embryo of the new reality that will replace it - why and how could anything be right in the first place? No one can escape the law of birth, growth, death, and decay?...One must be a sort of a clown to believe that just because there is suffering in this life, there must be a better life to come after death. If there were life after death, with what eyes shall we see? With what ears shall we hear? With what palate shall we taste? With what nose shall we smell? with what skin shall we feel? With what brain shall be think? With what sexual organ shall we enjoy sex with an equally dead vagina? Poch Suzara twitter# Facebook# Google#

Nonsense Books and Clever Books

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense... Benjamin Disraeli . . . For my part, I would sooner read with much respect and closer attention the books existing in my own personal library, than I do care to read the nonsense books existing in the library of a catholic university like in De la Salle University... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Recycling Garbage and Trash

Other Asian non-catholic countries are way ahead in the profitable business of recycling garbage and trash. In the Philippines, as the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century, we Filipinos are only way ahead in the business of recycling our sick politics as inspired by our sick recycled prayers to God and to His Son Jesus... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God's Grace, Love, and Goodness

"God's grace is infinite love expressing itself through infinite goodness." ... Philippine Star, July 5,2015. Wow God, as the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century, aside from filth, corruption, human degradation, poverty, human misery, sick church, sick government, sick schools, sick colleges, and sick universities - where is your grace, your infinite love, and infinite goodness to be found among the millions of poor and sick Filipinos struggling to survive with much pain and suffering in the Philippines? ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#