Religious Men and Women

Religious men and women are almost always people with a high sense of guilt and anxiety. Indeed, a sense of worthlessness as human beings for they can never, in
the nature of things, live up to the “perfection” that is demanded of them by their faith in God.

Indeed, guilt is an immensely power weapon. If a teacher makes you feel that there is something is wrong with you, then that teacher has gained a psychological ascendancy over your way of life.

“Be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect,” is an example of a command which is psychologically meaningless. It induces the feeling of guilt and anxiety for not being perfect.

“Oh Lord have mercy upon us miserable sinners.” What better way could be devised
to make men and women vulnerable to mind control? To be obedient? To be faithful?
To be fearful? Indeed, to be religiously dumbstruck?

As for me, an atheist, I would rather attach more value to what Bertrand Russell said: “No one is perfect and we should never be bothered by the fact that we are not.” Poch Suzara

Our Infantile System of Education

Take a good look at our Television industry. Movie industry. Media industry. Priesthood industry. Public Service industry. Law Enforcement industry. Society in general. Look how we are all educated to enjoy life only by singing, dancing, drinking, smoking, playing, shouting, kicking, jumping, fighting, laughing, crying, kissing, fooling, cheating, lying, violating, mocking, joking, bragging, negating, fearing, parroting, imitating, faking, corrupting, polluting, borrowing, bribing, hating, downgrading, fecundating, mating, prostituting, impregnating, ignoring, escaping, praying, sinning and, indeed - forgiving. But never must we ever enjoy life by thinking. Indeed, we have been taught to seriously believe that thinking is evil - the way of the devil. It will prevent our winning eternal salvation in heaven, by gaining eternal damnation in hell. And that is how, in this already 21st century, we Filipinos continue to be not the rich masters, but the poor and stupid victims of an infantile system of education. Poch Suzara

Only in the Philippines

If steal small, you land in jail. However, if you steal big, you immediately qualify to run as a candidate for government office. In government, if you steal bigger – you are promoted into a higher government position. In the meantime, look at the criminal investigations going on for crimes committed by government officials. The task is not being done by policemen or by NBI agents, but investigated by fellow-criminals in or out of the same corrupt government.

Usually, the investigation goes on endlessly; except for one beautiful development. Via the priesthood industry – the criminals under investigation have already been forgiven by God for their sins and crimes. It is otherwise more known as the success of Christianity as a way of life in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

GOD AS AN AMATEUR CREATOR

God was such as an amateur in the creation profession when he created Adam and Eve. They had no roof over their heads. No bed to sleep on. No blanket. no pillows. No deodorant. No sanitary napkins. No sex. First-Aid Kit. No cloths. No shoes. No socks. No comb. No toothbrush. No toothpaste. No dental floss. No nail cutter. No cups. No glasses. No plates. No food to eat except an apple. No kitchen. No spoon and fork. No toilet facilities. No toilet paper. No music. No lights to switch on. No bible to read. No library. No desk. No pen. No paper to write on. No mode of transportation to travel around. No school to go to. No teacher. Indeed, no father and mother to love. No grandma and grandpa to love even more. But God proudly declared to Adam and Eve that they are both gifted with a FREE WILL to believe and to have faith that they are living in the Garden of Eden - a PARADISE on this earth. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Travel and Divorce

In his great book – THE PLEASURES OF PHILOSOPHY, Will Durant wrote: “Divorce is like travel. It is useless if one cannot change.” Well, I have met a lot of “single mothers.” They have traveled and are now living in foreign countries. They have, however, found no reason to change. They have not learned to be rich in spirit, but remained poor in spirit. They are still on the look out for a richer dick, not for the sake of a richer sexual satisfaction, but for richer cash payment that goes along with it. With fake romance they usually succeed. They still hold that love, passion, affection, and compassion have only to do with for sale fecundation or for hire copulation as a more profitable kind of vocation. Happily, there are richer dicks out there ready and willing to offer to them the necessary remuneration for the sake of their temporary carnal satisfaction. And then a bye-bye, good riddance situation. To think that quite a few of these tuti-fruti-patuties known as “single mothers” have acquired "college education.” Worthless as it is in the struggle to achieve the good life – one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. In the meantime ... "Oh love! they wrong thee much that say thy sweet is bitter, when thy rich fruit is such as nothing could be sweeter." Poch Suzara

Where Our Country is Today

I should wish that we Filipino writers would begin to deal more, without fear, with what is really keeping us Filipinos spiritually poor as a people and the Philippines morally backward as a nation.

Consider a deeper horror: everything is a FAILURE in our country. Except Christianity. It has been and still is the one and only great SUCCESS in the Philippines.

We Filipinos couldn't care less about our sins, crimes, corruption, prostitution,
poverty, mediocrity, ill-health, lack of sanitation, social insanity, political stupidity, economic depravity, and indeed, the horrors of our population explosion.

Under Christian values and beliefs, in this already 21st century, all that we care about is God's promise of a better life to come after we are all dead to start to enjoy eternal salvation in his so-called kingdom of heaven. Poch Suzara

The Truth Hurts

Indeed, the truth hurts; but lies are far more damaging and can last for a thousand years. In the Philippines, since the 16th century, we can clearly see today the lies of Christianity and the damage it has done to our country socially, politically,
culturally, and economically. We Filipinos continue to be losing in the human race for civilization. We are only winning in the rat-race for eternal salvation. Poch Suzara

How not to be Lonely

All I have to do is to live the way you want me to live. Believe the way you want me to believe. Be a follower. Be poor in spirit. Be faithful. Never mind being thoughtful. Never mind the power of reason. Just hold on to faith. Just be closed-minded. Never mind being open-minded. Never mind the necessity of living my own life. I should just let others decide how I should live. I should just love and worship divinity. Never mind thinking. Just do a lot of praying. I must only believe as true the word of God written in the bible. I should stop reading it critically. Judiciously. I should only obey bible authority. And live my life always in fear of deviltry. To accept as all true the promises of the priesthood industry. That I must only look forward to a better life to come after death. Never mind man's most noble of occupation - the search of the truth. Never mind the only home we have - this planet earth. Never mind trying to put beauty into our world where nature has put only horror. There is more beauty in the kingdom of God to come after death. After all, Jesus loves me. If I do follow these things, never will I be ever lonely again. Well, I say, no way. I rather be lonely than be a thoughtless individual for the rest of life. Soon, I will be dead too. And it is better to acknowledge the fact that we die not partially; but entirely. Indeed, nothing is more natural and more simple than to see that a dead man lives no more. He has no more circulation, respiration, digestion, speech or reflection. Nothing is more absurd than to believe that a dead man somewhere out there is still alive. As if there is such a thing as a hereafter since there never was, for any of us, for million of years before our birth, a herebefore. Sleep in a morsel of death, a temporary experience of peace or sanity. Death, however, is the end of one's life for all eternity. The joy of life is nonetheless a joy because it must come to an end, nor do love and thought lose their value because they are not everlasting. For as long as I live, I shall continue to enjoy intellectual freedom on this earth. I shall continue to struggle for human decency. I would rather be on the side of meaningful humanity and to hell with meaningless divinity. What other great purpose is there in life? I would rather have a reason to have lived and and try to leave this world one day a better place than how I found it. Not necessarily in the material, but indeed, in the humanitarian sense. In his great book COSMOS scientist/atheist Carl Sagan wrote: "The Cosmos may be densely populated with intelligent beings. But the Darwinian lesson is clear: There will be no humans elsewhere. Only here. Only in this small planet. We are a rare as well as an endangered species. Everyone of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will find another." Poch Suzara

Dear Mar

Mariano Patalinjug
New York City, USA
June 27,2010

Dear Mar,

A great many thanks for the phrase: "The more you use your brains, the more brains you will have to use." How very true. For my part, I still find it incredible to have began to deeply appreciate my brain, the little of it that I possessed - after I was expelled out of La Salle high school. Especially after I also started reading seriously the so-called "bad books" that I was told must never never read.

May I, however, add: - "When the brain is troubled, men believe everything and examine nothing." We can see this truth on these pages. Most men are afraid when
in darkness - physical or moral. Fear is habitual to most men and becomes a necessity: they would believe that something precious is missing in life if they have nothing to fear. Sadly, this is what so-called "education" has basically been all about in the Philippines. Indeed, for the most part, schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines are places where intelligent minds are damned, but stupid souls are saved.

Bertrand Russell summarized it: "Fear is the principal reason why men are so unwilling to admit facts and so anxious to wrap themselves round a garment of myth."

Yours Truly,
Poch Suzara

A Filipino Genuine Leader

Show me a Pinoy who loves his wife and children, loves his country, and loves fellow-citizens, and I will show a Pinoy with all the potentials to be a genuine leader of our country. Show me, however, a Pinoy who believes in God and his angels, believes in Jesus and his apostles, believes in the Pope as the head of the Catholic church and his cardinals, believes in the power of prayer, believes in the promises of the priesthood industry about a better world to come after death, but does not believe in the intellectual growth of the Filipino as a people nor in the moral or political maturity of the Philippines as a nation, I will show you college-educated jerks as the corrupt officials today in the Philippine government. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Corruption and Prostitution

Of all forms of corruption active at all levels of our sick society the mostly deadly has been and still is transpiring inside the Department of Education. Consider two among the many deadly results that are produced by both private and public schools in our country: For our poor women, to be financially successful in life, they must only be active in the business of prostitution. For our poor men, to be financially successful in life, they must only be active in the business of corruption. It is said that behind every fortune is a crime. This is, indeed, true. However, let us not forget what is also true: Behind humanity suffering endlessly from earthly poverty comes from having too much silly faith in a heavenly divinity. Welcome to the Philippines. The land where corruption tends to corrupt not only sexually, not only medically, not only politically, not only legislatively, not only executively, not only in the judiciary, not only, especially, educationally. Indeed, in our blessed by God sick society, behind every fortune is not only a crime, also, especially, a corrupt woman's behind. Poch Suzara

Prosperity

Prosperity in life is delightful. It’s the path towards growth of one’s personality. Especially when accompanied with self-respect and dignity. Otherwise, say a poor woman, who enjoys prosperity but only by getting impregnated by a bigger dick and the bigger cash payment that goes along with it – is not prosperity. It is the corruption of her personal identity – the way of life of a tuti-frutie-patutie.

This human tragedy comes not because of destiny, but from the simple reason that most poor women are concerned mostly about surviving. Even at the cost of one’s reputation. They have neither the taste nor the emotion to appreciate the power of love or the values of affection via the decent way of living and thinking and hard working. They would rather seek more and better opportunities not at emancipation, or intellectual stimulation, but only by being active in the business of prostitution. It is all about selling what most stupid men are always eager to be buying. Poch Suzara

The Truth

The truth did not set me free. It set me mad. Especially as I discovered, much
to my consternation, that the “Revealed Truth” has yet to be revealed. By whom? Nobody as yet knows? The most that I am told is that the truth goes marching on.
As to where exactly it is going, again, who knows? Poch Suzara

Human Life

Human life, indeed, is valuable and meaningful for the sake of human life on
this earth. I find it silly to believe, however, that human life is valuable
and meaningful to God but only after we are dead with our souls in purgatory,
in heaven, or in hell. Poch Suzara

In Our Sick Society

We are more concerned with babies not yet born. We do not, however, give a hoot
about babies already born living in squalor and in poverty. Sick as we all are as
the Sick Children of Asia, we encourage our women to give birth to more babies. We pretend to love babies. We let them grow up a bit, give them a fighting, and then
we kill them with rotten hygiene, filthy sanitation and indeed, malnutrition.

Of course, somehow, many of these poor and abandoned children manage to survive.
And so, we enroll them to be students of our sick and corrupt system of education.
On earth as it is in heaven, the human tragedy goes on and on. It is all about social insanity traditionally generated in our country for the sake of Christianity. Poch Suzara

God’s Will

Most Pinoys cannot, will not, could not believe that impregnating a woman with a
child has anything to do by sexual penetration. Most Pinoys therefore have no worries whatsoever about the population explosion. They have been taught to believe that a woman getting pregnant with a baby has nothing to do with sexual thrill. It has only something to do with God’s Will. After all, after all these past centuries, in our schools, colleges, and universities - we are still taught to believe that God created all Filipinos in his own image and likeness. Poch Suzara

The Sick Children of Asia

Everything is a failure in the Philippines; except Christianity. Christianity has been and still is the only thing that’s quite a success in our way of life. Everything else is a total failure; especially the system education – rotten to the core as it has always been.

Consider in this already 21st century. We Filipinos still believe, as we have been frightened to believe in fantasy, that there is a better world to come after death. Never mind the work and discipline needed by way of a better system of education to acknowledge the reality that we can all have, in the here and now, a better country to come after birth.

We are no longer the Sick Man of Asia. We are now known as the Sick Children of Asia. Poch Suzara

For Louie Fernandez

Dear Louie, you are entirely correct. Right on target. I entirely agree. May I add, however, that among the many heroes, including our unsung heroes, Rizal was about the only one who had the intellectual capacity to see not only the minor evil called "Spanish Authority, but mainly the major evil called "Christianity in the Philippines." Indeed, even our teachers in schools and professors in colleges and universities have yet to see and acknowledge the evils of Christian beliefs and values. That up to today in this already 21st century Christianity is still pretty much well-established here keeping us Filipinos spiritually poor as a people and the Philippines morally backward as a nation. Especially for the glory of a divinity in heaven.

No doubt, Christianity today does not any more execute to death in public rare Filipino thinker. It is worst. Christianity executes to death the minds and hearts of our nation's youth via the same old corrupt system of Christian education.

As for me, I say it again: If Christianity did not get Rizal arrested, jailed, and executed in public, never would I have ever entertained the beauty and sanity of Atheism always on the side of humanity. Poch Suzara

Atheism is the Absence of God-belief

Atheism is the absence of god-belief. All else is embellishment. Atheism has no dogma, no rites, no holy books, no places of worship, no commandments, and we have no priesthood industry to fear. We atheist have no daily TV or daily radio programs. No daily newspapers. No magazines. No army, navy, air force. We have no schools, colleges, and universities that teach students to believe that our Savior is not ourselves born right here in the Philippines, but that our savior is a God-forsaken Jewish fellow born and died in a Jewish land some 2,000 years ago. Who also resurrected back to life from death! Atheism is not a religion. Religion encourages social stupidity as it inspires political insanity. We atheists know that life after birth is real and life after death is not real. We have no desire to believe that immortality is the condition of a dead man who refuses to believe that he is already dead. Is there life after death? Please, next time you visit a cemetery - try to explore if there is life after death. As for me, I have no wish to insult my dead love-ones by believing that they are still alive buried in the cemetery. Indeed, I refuse to pretend that I know anything about life after death since we even know nothing about life after birth. I ask: should stupidity be as long lasting as eternity for the sake of a divinity always in cahoots with deviltry?? Indeed, I am an atheist. I care about leaving this world one day a better place than I found it. In the meantime, I have no need to believe in your lesser God up there because I already believe in something greater: My family, my country, and the whole of humanity down here! Poch Suzara

The Atheist and the Agnostic

The agnostic is a cousin - a cowardly relative of the atheist. Moreover, the agnostic suffers from pain in the ass always sitting on a fence playing it safe just in case. Indeed, just in case that there really is God who will provide especially in life after death, but not in life after birth.

I was once a cowardly agnostic myself. Until I properly read the bible while sitting
on a fence. Happily, I fell off on the side of intelligent unbelief, not on the side
of stupid beliefs. Indeed, when we ignore decision; indecision takes over. And nothing could be more tiresome, and in the long more exasperating than indecision. It prevents us from taking a stand as grown up men and women to live a life of courage, dignity and self-respect.

As for me, I refuse to believe that God will forever burn me in hell for being an atheist; but that he loves me! Poch Suzara