Difference Between Education and Indoctrination

The difference between education and indoctrination is vast, but it is often subtle when the mind thinks of these two subjects... Education involves the seeking of facts, and learning about what is the truth, and what is not... Indoctrination is aimed at influencing people to believe in facts, without being able to back up these new found facts with anything but opinion... You can be indoctrinated into a political party, a cult, or a belief system... In fact, all of us are indoctrinated into a belief system as we are growing up... Whether our parents or guardians are open and understanding people, or if they are bigoted, and want nothing to do with anyone outside of their own race and affiliations, we are subtly indoctrinated into their belief system... As we grow older, many of us seek education in order to develop our own belief system... Education can be directly supported by data that is derived from facts... Indoctrination tends to use language that encompasses everything, referring to ‘all’, or ‘every’, as though the insights created are a statement of fact for each and every individual of a group... For example: ‘All democrats spend too much money.’ ‘All republicans are religiously oriented and bring the bible to work with them.’ You can’t support these statements of ‘all’ and ‘every’ without actual data... If you believe it, then it has grown from opinion to indoctrination... Education points out that there are different solutions, often to the same problem... Indoctrination poses the belief that there is only one solution to a problem... In Nazi Germany, the solution to growing economic problems was to exterminate all minorities and Jewish citizens, as though this was the only possible solution.... There was no room for any kind of secondary thought to the proposed solution... Education uses statistical analysis to encourage thought toward reasoning, and proposed solution finding... Indoctrination often uses statistics, but has offered no analysis of size, duration, control subjects, criteria, or duration of the gathering of those statistics. Thus, the statistics offered through indoctrination are simply misrepresented, and are used only to support the beliefs being posed... Any statistics that might dispute the beliefs are not brought to attention... Education is unbiased... It is founded in fact, and isn’t there to persuade anyone to come up with a certain belief... Education is development of one’s own beliefs based on the facts that are discovered throughout the process... Indoctrination has an agenda. It is used to encourage the embracing of another’s beliefs, and developing blinding and complete agreement with those beliefs. I said it before, I said it again: For the most part, million of children in school in the Philippines are not being educated... They are being indoctrinated; especially to believe in a lot of hogwash to benefit the officials of the CHURCH, and the politicians in the GOVERNMENT - both corrupt and always in cahoots together. Education in the Philippines has nothing to do with learning HOW TO THINK. It has only everything to do with learning WHAT TO BELIEVE. One can clearly see the results all around us - we are not a people of courageous THINKERS; we are only a nation of frightened BELIEVER more at home at being STUPID as FOLLOWERS than we should be INTELLIGENT as LEADERS!!. . . Poch Suzara

The Sick God Down here

Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken. . . [Bertrand Russell] . . . In the Philippines, even if 99 per cent of its population believe in the existence of God - they may well be mistaken. In fact, considering how millions of Filipinos have been twisted spiritually, distorted morally, mutilated religiously, not to mention as a nation always sickened historically - there is no such thing as a kind, loving, merciful, wonderful, and delightful - God up there! - - - There is only the sick God down here! - - - Poch Suzara

We are Made Stupid by Educatiion

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. . . Bertrand Russell . . . In the Philippines, however, via schools, colleges, and universities, we have been taught to believe that if we work hard at having endless faith in human stupidity, specially for the glory of Jesus on earth as he is in heaven eternally, - we shall have won eternal salvation after death in the Kingdom of God. . . Poch Suzara

God Loves you and He needs Money

Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. . . And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money. . . George Carlin. Indeed, after you give money to the church for God, you are then told to smile and to believe that "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God." Poch Suzara Twitter# facebook# Google#

They are all Maka-Dios in Our Corrupt Government

"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors. The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - - - Plato. . . In the Philippines, we are governed by the corrupt in the Congress and in the Senate. What is even more amazing about these criminals is that not one of them is an atheist... in fact, they all believe, love, worship, and have faith in God. . . . specially the God who is always in the business of forgiving sins and crimes at any time committed in the government, by the government, and for the government - officials. Poch Suzara

What If there is a God?

The death of a child newly born into this world is prove enough that there is no God as its creator. If there were, such a God is cruel and reckless and therefore not worth believing, respecting, or worth admiring... Well, for me, as I am an atheist, and already a senior citizen --- my own death coming soon will only prove that God does not give a hoot whether I believe or do not believed in Him... In the end, it seems that God would rather meet with me not while I am alive, but only after I am dead! Again, proving that God really does not know what the fuck He is a God for --- Indeed, what the fuck was God for as a God to those more than million Billion people who already lived and died on this piece of dust called "earth?" ! Poch Suzara Facebook# Google# Twitter# Atheists#

A Man of Character

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation... Your character is what you really are; while your reputation is merely what you appear to be --- a farce, a fraud, and a ceremony! Indeed, a man of character is good for something. A man of reputation is good for nothing!... Poch Suzara

FUCK is the most colorful word in the English Language

Fuck is the most colorful Word in the English Language... by Who the Fuck Knows... Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English language today is the word "fuck"... It is a magical word which, just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, love, and hate... In language, "fuck" falls into many grammatical categories... It can be used as a verb both transitive (John fucked Mary) and intransitive (Mary was fucked by John)... It can be an action verb (John really gives a fuck),,, a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a fuck),,, and adverb (Mary is fucking interested in John),,, or as a noun (Mary is a terrific fuck)... It can also be used as an interjection (Fuck! I'm late for my date with Mary)... It can even be used as a conjunction (Mary is easy, fuck she's also stupid)... As you can see there are very few words with the overall versatility of the word fuck... Aside from its sexual connotations, this word can be used to describe many situations::: 1. Greetings........."How the fuck are ya?"... 2. Fraud..............."I got fucked by the car dealer."... 3. Resignation......."Oh, fuck it!"... 4. Trouble............."I guess I'm fucked now."... 5. Aggression........."Fuck you!"... 6. Disgust................"Fuck me."... 7. Confusion............." What the fuck....?"... 8. Displeasure............"Fucking shit man..."... 9. Lost........................"Where the fuck are we?"... 10.Disbelief..............."Unfuckingbelievable!"... 11.Retaliation............."Up your fucking ass!"... 12. Apathy................."Who really gives a fuck?"... 13. Suspicion............."Who the fuck are you?"... 14. Directions.............."Fuck off"... It can be maternal........"Motherfucker!"... It can be used to tell time......."It's four fucking twenty!"... It can be used as an anatomical description............."He's a fucking asshole."... Lastly, it has been used by many notable people throughout history:... "What the fuck was that?" -Mayor of Hiroshima... "That's not a real fucking gun." -John Lennon... "Where the fuck is all this water coming from?" -Captain of the Titanic... "Who the fuck is gonna find out?" -Richard Nixon... "Heads are gonna fucking roll." -Anne Boleyn... "Any fucking idiot could answer that." -Albert Einstein... "It does so fucking look like her!" -Picasso... "You want what on the fucking ceiling?" -Michaelangelo... "Fuck a duck." -Walt Disney... "Houston, we have a big fucking problem." - The crew of Apollo 13... "Fuck you too, my dear Sirs." Poch Suzara - after getting expelled out of la Salle High school...

Silly Prayers Said By Silly People

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. - Stephen Crotts ... Oh God, my dear God, I asked it before, I ask it again: Aside from fucking around with our prayers, What the fuck else are you good for as a God? Poch Suzara

The Wrong God

Suppose you have chosen to believe and to have faith in the wrong God? ... Every time you go to church and you pray to the wrong God, you are just making the right God angry at you for having faith in blind faith. - (my version of Pascal's Wager.)... Now If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?... Only the Sick Man of Asia in the Philippines, among others - are convinced that God has spoken; but then again - how come we can not agree as to what God said as nobody has taught us to understand the language of God!... In the meantime, I asked it before, I ask it again: If God created the Filipinos in His own image and likeness, how come we Filipinos do not believe that God is a Filipino God? We only believe that God is a Jewish God! Where is our sense of dignity as a people, and where is our sense of self-respect as a nation? Poch Suzara

I Never Lied to Any of You

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane." --- Robert Ingersoll Another word for "insane" is THE SICK MAN OF ASIA - the frightened men and women - educated products of schools, colleges, and universities own and operated by the Catholic church in the Philippines. Such frightened men and women are more terrified by harmless "vulgar language" than they should be more horrified by harmful "vulgar beliefs and vulgar values" keeping us Filipinos culturally poor and spiritually sick as a people; not to mention morally corrupt and economically bankrupt as a nation... Consider in this already 21st century... We Filipinos are still taught to believe that the Philippines has been and still is the one and only country in Asia that's been lucky enough to have always been BLESSED WITH CHRISTIAN VALUES AND BELIEFS by God and his angels from heaven through Christ our Lord down here on earth... Again, I say it with all candor, that the damage I have done in this forum by my so-called foal and vulgar language is so puny, so insignificant compared to the monstrous damage done to Filipino minds and hearts since the 16th century by the teachings of insanity in the Philippines more referred to as "Christianity." ... Poch Suzara Google# Facebook# Twitter# Atheists#

We are All Sick and Dying

According to the Laws of Nature - we are all dying... After all, it's true, the day we are born is the day we begin to live in a dying body... We will all eventually be dead sooner or later... Oh yes, in this world, nobody is healthy, everybody is sick and dying... The faith-healers of the church including the doctors in the hospitals all make money by fraud, farce, and ceremony!... Indeed, here, there, and everywhere in the universe, there is only the law of birth, growth, decay, and death... However, in the Philippines - the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century: aside from birth, growth, death, and decay, there is also the horrors of political stupidity that's deathless... It seems the horror is endless. Poch Suzara Twitter# Google# Facebook# Atheist#

Buy the People, Fool the People, and Fuck the People

In other countries enjoying real freedom and real democracy - they have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. In the Philippines government, it is more about FOOL THE PEOPLE, BUY THE PEOPLE, AND FUCK THE PEOPLE. I said it before, I say it again: PORK INA MO SA CONGRESSO. BABOY TATAY MO SA SENADO. HINDUT LAHAT KAYO SO GOVYERNO! Poch Suzara

Ignorance to Spread More Ignorance

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” ― Jonathan Swift... Oh dear Jonathan, my dear Jonathan Swift, you are right on target. Learning in our schools,, colleges, and universities have hardly been about "education" but more about "indoctrination" - the training in WHAT TO BELIEVE, and not in HOW TO THINK... Thus, we have millions of college-educated Pinoys and Pinays all very proud of themselves not as intelligent thinkers, but only as stupid believers! ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google# Atheists#

Truth-seekers or Frightened Followers

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos... Oh Carl, my dear Carl Sagan, most of my teachers in La Salle disagreed with me. They did, however, let me live but by first expelling out of high school... Well, ever since then, as a self-educated individual via the habit of reading serious books on science and religion - I gradually discovered that my teachers in school then were not really teachers... They were more like preachers; indeed, they were not truth-seekers, but a gang of faithful to Jesus frightened followers... Cheers! --- Poch suzara

Getting Angry is Good for your Health

Get it out: Getting angry is good for the heart, research has found... It may contradict common wisdom but getting angry is good for you it seems... The emotion actually reduces the negative impact of stress, according to scientists... It increases blood flow to part of the brain which is involved in experiencing positive feelings, a study has found... Researchers induced anger in 30 men with a simple laboratory method using 50 recognised phrases intended to aggravate... Before and immediately after the experiment they measured the subjects' heart rate, arterial tension, stress hormones testosterone and cortisol while scanning their brains... Dr Neus Herrero and colleagues said their findings, published in the journal Hormones and Behaviour, showed the left hemisphere of the brain became more stimulated... Dr Herrero, of the University of Valencia, said the left frontal region of the brain is involved in experiencing positive emotions, while the right is more related to negative emotions... The left frontal area also triggers 'closeness' which can generate happiness, whereas the right provokes withdrawal, fear and sadness... I said it before, I say it again: We Filipinos are historically fucked as a people and even more historically fucked as a nation because in our schools, colleges, and universities --- we have never been educated to get angry at the historical horrors needlessly happening to us as a spiritually twisted people and happening to us as a morally distorted nation!.. As a matter of truth, most of what we have been educated for is to know how to pray to Jesus to forgive our sins and crimes because all sins and all crimes, except the sin of blasphemy against the holy spirit, can be forgiven. In the meantime, here's Elizabeth Kenny... She says: HE WHO ANGERS YOU CONQUERS YOU... Oh my dear Elizabeth Kenny, millions of Filipinos are still a conquered people because in its schools, colleges, and universities - owned and operated by the Catholic church, - millions of us Filipinos are still being taught to believe that "ANGER" is one of seven deadly sins against God. Poch Suzara

The Richest and the Poorest People on Earth

"The RICHEST people on earth are those who invest their lives in heaven." ... Phil Star Oct. 19, 2013 "The POOREST people on earth are the millions upon millions of filthy poor Filipinos... They too have been educated to invest their lives in nothing except to win eternal salvation after death." ... Poch Suzara

Only In The Philippines

A high school expelled student, due to the power of his endless pursuit at self-education at home in his own library has managed to provoke the academic complacency of his former teachers in school; has managed to rattle the intellect of professors in college; and, indeed, especially, has managed to shake the religious faith of many college-educated Pinoys and Pinays in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. Poch Suzara

We are no longer the SICK MAN OF ASIA

The Philippines has been always blessed by God as it is the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century... We have already been told by the media at home and abroad that due to its great economic success in recent decades, the Philippines is no longer a country inhabited by the Sick Man of Asia... Unfortunately, what is true these days is that the Philippines is now more known as a nation where its Catholic congressmen and Catholic senators have turned out to be the most corrupt officials of the sick Catholic Philippine government. I said it before, I say it again: GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES - THE ONLY SICK CATHOLIC COUNTRY IN ASIA SINCE THE 16TH CENTURY!... or, in the vernacular: Pork Ina Mo sa Congresso; Baboy Tatay mo sa Senado; Mga Hindut Lahat kayo sa Gobyerno. Poch Suzara

TOP TEN FAILED ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

There are many failed arguments for God's existence but there is one which is fundamental to them all. This is the Argument from FEAR as inspired by IGNORANCE... Take virtually any aspect of our natural world that we don't fully understand and you'll find someone claiming God is the light at the end of that dark tunnel... Here are TEN of such arguments - faulty, illogical, childish and fearfully crappy as they are superstitious to any critical mind that thinks under lively analysis, and never stuck with beliefs under deadly paralysis:.. 1. Shifting the Burden of Proof - I know God exists. If you disagree, prove otherwise. Oh you say you can't prove God doesn't exist? That's because you know he does!... 2. Argument from Popularity - The vast majority of the world believes in God. This supports the universal truth that God is real, otherwise it makes no sense that so many people would believe... 3. The Transcendental Argument - God is, by definition, a being greater than which nothing can be conceived (imagined). Existence in reality is better than existence in one's imagination. God must exist in reality; if God did not, then God would not be that than which nothing greater can be conceived (imagined)... 4. Argument from Coercion - You must believe in God/Jesus. It's your only hope for salvation. We are all doomed if we don't accept Jesus as our personal savior. It says so in the Bible. If you want to live forever and avoid suffering, you must accept God... 5. First Cause Argument - Everything that exists in our world is the result of some sort of "first cause" which brought about its existence. Therefore, there must have been a force which created the universe. That "first cause" is what we call God. Also known as Cosmological Argument... 6. Argument from Authority - God is real because the Bible (or whatever sacred text you believe in) says so. Why would so many people write so much about God if it wasn't true?... 7. Argument from Personal Experience - I know god exists because I can feel him. I know it in my heart; he talks to me; I feel his strength and existence flow through every fiber of my being... 8. Argument from Improbability - The second law of thermodynamics says matter inevitably becomes entropic (spreads out in chaos) and this defies the observation on Earth where we see, things becoming more organized. Therefore God is responsible... 9. Pascal's Wager - It is a "safe bet" to believe in God just in case he is real. What's the harm? If you believe and he doesn't exist, you don't lose anything, but if you don't believe and he does exist, you lose big time... 10. Argument from Design - If you found a watch on the ground, you never met the watchmaker, but you know from its design, the beauty of it; the way each piece was intricately designed to work together, that this watch had a creator. Theists point to the human body; the precise way each of our organs work with each other and claim it's the most amazing "creation" of all, and surely there was some sort of creator behind it... In the meantime, no one has ever found God existing here; or has discovered God existing there; or, has met God existing anywhere! As a matter of truth, no one knows if God is a HE, a SHE, or an IT as supposed to be existing everywhere!... Faith in God is just as useless as it is worthless. We do not speak of faith that 2 plus 2 equals 4. We do not speak of faith that a triangle has 3 sides, or an octagon has 8 sides. We only speak of faith when we do NOT know and we need to transform our FEARS and IGNORANCE into something less shameful or worst - by referring to ourselves as faithful!... Sadly, a man of faith is like a drunkard who clings to a lamppost for support, not illumination!... Poch Suzara Twitter# Google# Facebook# Atheists#