Friday, November 23, 2007

I am Told

I am told that I should be a little bit more polite and not call any one a religious moron. Well, I often thought of calling them religious idiots but I really don’t want to insult the idiots. I think the idiots are less harmful than the religious morons! Indeed, when I was in grade school and high school, my teachers were not idiots. They were religious morons! Poch Suzara

Cats and Dogs

Cats and dogs in America live on a yearly budget of $50,000,000,000 ( Billion ) Pet Food industry in the USA. Indeed, cats and dogs in America enjoy a higher standard of living than most Filipinos who live under subhuman conditions in the Philippines. To think that cats and dogs in America have never been blessed with such miracles derived from the Old and the New Testament, or derived from El Shaddai improvement, or even derived from Jesus is Lord movement. Poch Suzara

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Wealth Stolen in the Philippines

Overpopulation means that the number of people in a society surpasses the economic basis for providing them with adequate food, ample clothing, decent housing, quality school facilities¸ meaningful employment, and creative leisure. Of course a men of blind faith do not see the beauty of these earthly goods. They can only believe what other men of blind faith have frightened them to believe. Especially when they were little boys ang girls at home and in school, that: - God will always provide.

If it is true that the Philippines has no overpopulation problem and that our problem of vast poverty is really due to unequal distribution of wealth as provided by God, I ask: when will the Vatican bank begin to return and distribute to poor Filipinos the trillions of dollars stolen by religion big business in the Philippines – the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16 century? Poch Suzara

Our Politicians

Our politicians are more at home with prayers than they are learning as readers.

Political power is not derived from divine tolerance. It comes mostly from people who are proud of human ignorance. Poch Suzara

The Bible

“Study the bible to be wise; believe it to be safe; practice it to be holy.” Philippine Star Nov. 17, 2007.

If the bible was truly written by inspired authors of God and if God made any sense at all, no one would need to acquire a modicum of common sense to do what any sane man should do after studying, believing and practicing the bible: throw the silly book out the window. The bible is a good book; unfortunately, good for nothing. Look at the results of bible teachings in the Philippines – the only Christian country since the 16h century.

For my part, I wasted precious years of my youth studying, believing, and practicing such biblical childish nonsense. Poch Suzara


The Evil called Religion

Nobel Prize-wining American physicist Steven Weinberg said: “Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”

What is even more scandalous, however, are the people who invented good religion. They themselves have turned out to be good; unfortunately, good for nothing. Poch Suzara

From Adamson University

A college student in Adamson University proudly commented that it is ok for me not to believe in God since God believes in me. Well, I replied: I find it enigmatic that a God could also be in the childish business of believing or disbelieving anything! What happened to that more matured business of “knowing?”

“Believing” is the business of misguided children. “Knowing” is the business of intellectually courageous men and culturally secured grown-up women. Poch Suzara

Monday, November 19, 2007

Who is the greater Scholar

The one who studies the life and times of Jose Rizal; or, the one who studies the life and times of Rizal’s enemy – Christianity – the religion that put Rizal to death in the 19th century, and that continues to put to death the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions of innocent Filipinos to believe in a lot of religious hokum since the 16th century? Poch Suzara

Human Stupidity

Human stupidity is a lesser evil as it tries to outshine anything temporary. It is, however, the greatest of evil as it tries to outshine infinity. Poch Suzara

How to be a Decent Human Being

Take care of your body. Especially your brain. The best kind of wealth is health. There is more to life than just to be a stupid believer. One must never be afraid to be an intelligent thinker. To hell with your silly soul. It does not exist. There is no such thing as hell after death. There is no such thing as a better world to come after death. If there were, there never was any one who knew anything about it, or any one alive today who knows anything about it. Not even the charlatan at the Vatican who pretends to be the Vicar of the Christian Wotan. The whole idea about the meaning or the purpose of life is that we must only try to leave this world a better place than we found it. Otherwise, there is very little reason for any of us to have ever lived. Poch Suzara

Friends and Relatives

Friends and relatives keep wondering what in hell am I doing in this world needlessly creating enemies for myself as I am expounding, quite openly and consistently - the beauty and the power of free thought? Well, I said it before and I say it again: “If I do not take a stand to speak up, who will? And if not now, when? Poch Suzara

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Christianity, Poverty, and Democracy

Poverty is to the poor what Insanity is to the rich. Combine the two evil forces together and they add up to the history of Christianity. In the Philippines it is called “The family that prays together stays together" - especially to foster our freedom as a people and to enhance our democracy as a nation.” Poch Suzara

Friday, November 16, 2007

Deadly Religion

“Every cause, “ wrote Paul Ehrlich, “is a lost cause unless there is population control.” With all due respect, I do not quite agree. The more people there are existing under subhuman conditions, indeed, the more misery and poverty that exist in the world, the more the cause of religion becomes a winning cause.

Christianity always had a vested interest in human suffering. Christianity had been quite a success by capitalizing on human suffering. She has been enormously successful in insuring her own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering via blind faith. Especially in the Philippines. The only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century. Poch Suzara

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Jose Rizal

Rizal was arrested by the Christians, incarcerated by the Christians, executed by the Christians, and then his corpse put inside an old sack was thrown in Paco cemetery by the Christians. Indeed, Rizal was never given a Christian burial.
To believe that Rizal died as a Christian only makes Rizal what we Filipinos are today - the Sick Man of Asia - still devoted and faithful to Christian values and beliefs. Poch Suzara

Refuse to Think

When you refuse to think, someone else will determine thoughts for you. In the meantime, the church leaders have only to remind you that God gifted you with a free will so that you no longer have to think, especially for yourself. Poch Suzara

Madness

Madness comes as a way to avoid the memory of pain and suffering. Thanks to our mad system of education, we are all, each and every one of us, - victims not only of madness but also victims of education. Poch Suzara

Bible Inspiration

Bible inspiration usually depends upon the fear and the ignorance of those who do not bother to read properly the Word of God.

In the meantime, human happiness is hardly inspired in the bible. Man is destined to be free. Whether freedom will make him happy is an issue explained neither in the Old nor in the New Testament. What matters is God’s will. That God is a cold-blooded perfection quite lost in self-admiration. Poch Suzara

Theology


Theology has nothing to do with science or even with philosophy. Theology has nothing to do with what is true or false. In fact, theology is the study of nothing. Consider after all these past many centuries, the theologians still do not know what exactly they are talking about! In fact, they do not even know what “knowing” means. Poch Suzara

Religious Founders

The failure of organized religions is that all of them made a mockery of what their founders taught. And why not, since the founders of most religions have not been flexible thinkers, but only rigid, if not reckless, believers.

Consider the encouragement of false beliefs and to protect sacred lies by discouraging, if not prohibiting, honest discussion and free inquiry. The horror could only be the result of childish believing based upon fear and ignorance. Not due to intelligent matured thinking based upon the search of the truth. Poch Suzara

Organized Religions

Combine organized mediocrity, organized hypocrisy, and organized dishonesty, not to mention organized gimcrackery together and they all add up to what is more known as organized religions of this world. Poch Suzara

Jesus Christ

For my part, as an atheist, I have neither love nor respect for Jesus Christ. For one thing, Jesus never gave a hoot as to whether his father married his mother. For another, Jesus never did anything important for his mother and for women in general. But Jesus would wash the feet of his stupid apostles. And to think that this is the same Jesus who, crucified on the cross, cried out: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Indeed, the same Jesus who, during his lifetime, also declared that the end of the world is coming. Poch Suzara

No Atheist in the Corrupt Government

Everybody admits that almost all of our men and women employed, installed, or elected to be in Philippine government are corrupt. Nobody, however, has the guts to admit that there are no atheists, either elected or appointed in the Philippine government. Indeed, the corrupt officials and some other 1.7 million corrupt government employees believe, love, worship, and adore God. for my part, as an atheist, I say this is a most favorable argument for Atheism to grow, to expand, and to develop in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

The Problem with the Lord

The problem with the Lord is that he is not omnipresent anywhere out there, but only omni-absent everywhere down here. Well, we are told that whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. This is just the first part of the story. The second part of the story is that after the gods have done destruction, they eternally play the game of “hide and seek.” Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Christianity

Christianity has always been a great success in the Philippines. Due to our Christian values and infantile beliefs – endless corruption, mediocrity, hypocrisy, and poverty have also been quite a success as a way of life in our sick and crippled society. Poch Suzara

World History

In world history, there never was a conflict between good and evil. It has always been about war between two evils. And that is how perpetually stupid we all are as human beings on this tiny and insignificant planet. Poch Suzara

Children – our only Hope

The only hope we have for the future of our country is with our children. Too bad they are in school being taught to believe the same stupid nonsense that we were taught to believe too when we were kids in school. Such as death is more important than birth, and that there is a better world to come after we are all dead! Poch Suzara

Human Greatness

Human greatness is not a function of success. Only the mediocre and the Philistine are in the rat-race for success. Well, you may win in the rat-race for wealth, power, and glory, but you are still a rat. Poch Suzara

Sinful Thinking

Believing is easy. Thinking is hard. That is why we are a nation of childish believers, not matured thinkers. In fact, in our schools, colleges, and universities - we have been educated to believe that to think is a sin. To believe will save our souls away from damnation. Poch Suzara

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Faith

Faith is believing in things that have nothing to do with the truth. Thus, religious morons have faith in the Revealed Truth only because the truth has not yet been revealed.
As to whether divinity or deviltry will ever reveal the truth, not even faith knows! Poch Suzara

It is truly Amazing

In recent decades homosexuals and the lesbians have come out of the closet. Openly and publicly, they have courageously exposed their real identity for everyone to tolerate.

The atheists, however, are still playing hide and seek inside the closet. They are still afraid to rock the religious boat. Atheist are still careful not to displease the homosexuals and the lesbians who are owners of schools, colleges, and universities, including the so-called “freaks” of nature as priest and nuns in the priesthood industry. To think that it takes a much higher I.Q. to be an atheist. Poch Suzara

Childish Religion

A religion that attaches blame to the faults of the created rather than point to the faults of the creator has got to be a religion for the religious morons.

Such is our Christian religion. The religion of the losers and the failures. Why should we pay for the original sin of Adam and Eve? They were not even Filipinos! Golly, Adam and Eve were not even Catholics. They never enjoyed the benefits of the sacrament of Baptism. Golly, nobody even told Adam and Eve about the power of prayer and the forgiveness of sin and crime, specially if one were the former Catholic president of the Republic of the Philippines. Poch Suzara

Freedom and Religion

Freedom of religion is good. Freedom from religion is better. Freedom of atheism, by atheism, and for atheism is the best. Look at world history. The atheists have never hated or declared war against other atheists for not believing in the existence of God! Poch Suzara

Most Religious Morons

Most religious morons live lost lives. Since childhood they have been not only frightened but also blinded to look for a God always omni-present nowhere out there; but always omni-absent everywhere down here. Poch Suzara

I am Told

I am told by friends and relatives that in the end before I leave this world, I will find God. Well, I said it before and I say it again: a God who is always lost, indeed, always omni-absent is not worth finding. Poch Suzara

Kill

Kill one poor fellow and you are a silly murderer. Kill millions of people and you are a silly conqueror. Kill eventually every man, woman, and child in this world and you are not only a silly God but also in cahoots with a silly devil. Poch Suzara

A Nation of Religious Morons

We are a nation of religious morons. Even in our schools, colleges, and universities – they teach how to save and how to love not our country, but only how to love and how to save our stupid individual souls! Poch Suzara

On Being Spiritual

Most people believe that being spiritual is only about listening to others preaching bombastic garbage from the holy bible. On the contrary, being spiritual is about questioning everything, especially questioning the bible as it contains plenty of nothing. After more than 4,000 years of messages from God in the Old Testament and from Jesus, the Son of God, in the New Testament – look at our world still sapped with so many destructive religious messages such as God loves the world. Poch Suzara

Friday, November 02, 2007

Corruption

Corruption may have been invented in China. But thanks to the pardon of crime and the forgiveness of sin - corruption was perfected as a way of life; especially in Congress and in the Senate of the Philippine government. They seek not solutions to national problems, but seek instead only money and power. When they do get money, plenty of it, money made either by lies or by deception, or made by hook or by crook, they just continue to be selfish, greedy, stupid, insecure, corrupt, and insane. Wow, they are even so proud when you address them as “your honor.” After all, they are the elected members of the House of Representathieves. Poch Suzara

God Revealed in Nature

Nature is terrible and cruel. It cares nothing for human values. Nature is also wasteful. Moreover, nature has only to do with birth, death, and decay. Nothing is permanent in nature. As an atheist I admit that I am a part of nature as nature is part of me. Now where or when or how has God ever revealed himself in nature? Poch Suzara

Why Something

Why the existence of something rather than nothing? The implication is that there is a creator responsible for that something. Well, this is all fine and dandy. But why only a male God responsible for that something? Why not instead a female goddess responsible for everything?

Quality Education

If quality education starts with the teachers, the government can do a great deal to transform by improving the conditions for teachers. Unfortunately, this is not enough. What is mostly needed is the scientific outlook or, simply, the love of the truth in classrooms. Bertrand Russell explained it in plain language: “I wish to propose for the reader’s favorable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." If this doctrine were widespread and generally accepted and practiced in our schools, colleges, and universities, it will revolutionize from backward to forward the Filipino way of life in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

Atheist Defined

Dictionary says an atheist is one who denies the existence of God. This is hogwash. What we atheists deny is that God has absolutely anything to do with existence. Otherwise, the proofs of the existence of God should have already been established centuries ago. In this already 21st century – the Christians, the Jews, and the Muslims still hate and kill each other over who or what such weird supernatural beings should be called: - God? Allah? Yahweh? Or what have you! Now let us assume for the sake of the argument that God exist somewhere out there. Does God really have such an uneasy vanity as to be terrestrially upset just because we atheists do not believe in his terrestrial existence? If we atheists were able to declare that God does not exist, how come God could not be return the compliment by also declaring that the atheists do not exist? Yet here we are existing as clean and as bright as the sun – the real creator of life on this earth! If we must believe in something, let us believe in the existence of the sun. The sun is clean and bright even as it burns itself out in the process. Poch Suzara

Ignorance

Ignorance establishes its own blindness; prevents its own enlightenment; and, belittles human intelligence. Ignorance is bliss and has always been precisely what the subject of theology has been all about. Look how the theologians are still ignorant of the knowledge whether God as a He, a She, or an It!

Newspapers

Our newspapers seem incomplete unless they report death, murder, rape, robbery, and other forms of lawlessness and crime, not to mention the life and times of the tootie frooties and patuties famous in our sick society. The few recognize it as social insanity. The many believe it to be the miracles of “freedom and democracy.” Poch Suzara

Our Most Pressing Problem

What is the most pressing issue besetting our country today?

I say blind faith. We are still blind with so much faith in the power of stupid prayer.

During the past 400 years, we never missed praying daily to a higher power to remedy the ills of our sick country.

In the meantime, we are a corrupt people because of our corrupt values and corrupt beliefs.

In this 21st century, we are still praying to Mary, Mother of God, to pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen?” Poch Suzara

100 Trillion Cells

The 100 trillion cells that are bundled up together comprising our body are not human cells, but tiny animal cells. It is amazing how such tiny creatures together could evolve into our physical form and still more amazing how such little devils could evolve as thinking human beings.

Too bad silly religion managed to intrude into the picture to damaged man’s thinking capacity; especially to believe that a God made man in his own image and likeness. Poch Suzara

Religion Against Science

All the melodramatic quarrels of religion against science should have already been settled thousands of years ago. The findings of science should have already been reported in the bible – a book written by inspired authors of an All-knowing God. Obviously, God failed to inspire his bible authors about the wonders of science because God knew nothing of the scientific way of thinking.
In school, we were taught to believe that God is omni-present. And yet, God has always been omni-absent. God was not present to edit the works of His inspired authors who recklessly wrote such nonsense as “Cain knew his wife,” or that “Joshua commanded the sun to stop,” or that God told Noah to save not his neighbors, but to “save the animals,” or that dead characters in the Old and in the New testament were able to resurrect themselves back to life. Poch Suzara

Russell and Dawkins

Bertrand Russell was once accused of being “lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, bigoted, untruthful, and bereft of moral fibre.”

On the contrary, Russell was one of the kindest philosophers who ever lived. In his time in many countries, he intellectually taught millions of people to be courageous with self-respect and to be comfortable with human dignity.

Next to Russell, I have the greatest respect and admiration for the famous atheist-biologist Richard Dawkins. He recently published “The God Delusion” – a best seller in the USA and Britain, it is now also coming out in 30 foreign editions, shooting onto best seller lists in Italy, Germany, Brazil and Spain.

I particularly enjoyed reading Dawkins’ description of God of the Old Testament - “arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction… a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sado-masochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” Poch Suzara

If God is Dead

“If God is dead then everything is permissible” is not an argument against a dead God, but an argument against a living God! Why does God allow the sinner to enjoy his sins and then enjoy even more not only the forgiveness of sin by God, but also enjoy the offer of paradise in the hereafter? Poch Suzara

The Bible

We are a nation of bible believers. Not bible readers. It is not parts of the bible we reject, but parts of the bible we accept – that makes us the Sick Man of Asia.

The bible tells us to have faith. But faith means having the free will to choose to avoid knowing what is true.

The bible tells us to love our neighbors and to love our enemies. Well, our neighbors and our enemies are one and same people we work with; vote for; trade and do business with; and indeed, neighbors and enemies together are with us during mass on Sundays! Poch Suzara

God's Children

Why should God tell parents how to raise their children when he had drowned His own? Oh yes, the existence of God might still be a mystery. One thing, however, is no longer a mystery: in this world, God loves the dead more than He gives a hoot about the living. Poch Suzara

Born-Again Atheist

Each and every single one of us, without exception, are born atheist. No child ever comes out of mother’s womb singing “Glory be to God,” or praying the rosary? A Born-Again Christian is a childish myth! More truth to tell, however, is that after that dreadful theism has been shoved into our innocent minds, we can only be born-again atheist! Poch Suzara

Our Historical Trouble

Our historical trouble is that we have not prayed hard enough? We have not prayed daily enough, weekly enough, monthly enough, yearly enough, and centuries enough? We need to pray more? Let us be more active and consistent with our prayers? In fact, our parents, grandparents, great grandparents did not pray as much they should have prayed?

If we could only devote more time, more energy, more resources, more ways and more means, and indeed devote more faith in the power of prayer, then and only then will God provide. In the meantime, we Filipinos continue to be famous as the Sick Man of Asia. Poch Suzara

Our System of Education

In our schools, colleges, and universities are teachers and professors who have proven themselves incapable of deeper learning.

Indeed, under our system of education, the search of the truth is a considered something of a sacred confusion, or a holy delusion. Not a matter of, or for, - social, political, or economic reconstruction. Poch Suzara

Our Sick Society

We do not struggle with sin and grime. We struggle with suffering and crime. Our Fall have nothing to do with Original sin. Our spiritual poverty as a people and moral bankruptcy as a nation have only to do with Christianity – a religion founded on lies, deception, and mendacity. Look how Catholic schools, colleges and universities continue to be in the business of frightening Catholic students to believe that love of God is far more beneficial than love of country or love of fellow-citizens.Poch Suzara

Silly and Childish

If we hope to remedy the ills of our sick society the first thing we must do is to discard the habit of silly prayers. Then and only then can we begin to grow as a people and develop as a nation.Otherwise, praying for the Second Coming of the Lord to straighten out the mess of our sick society has always been a sick biblical joke.Poch Suzara

Quezonian Prophecy

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos, to a government run like heaven by Americans” declared President Manuel Quezon decades ago. As if it made any difference to the millions of the losers and the failures living under sub-human conditions in this God-forsaken country! Poch Suzara

Why Bother as We are Sick Man

All the social improvements, economic progress, political developments, and religious miracles; not to mention the lies and deception and delusions and other historical confusions happening daily to Filipinos in the Philippines are considered blessings from God from heaven. It only proves one thing: - we are, indeed, the Sick Man of Asia!

But then again, why should we Filipinos bother to grow as a people and to mature as
a nation since we have been educated to believe that God will provide for us; if not Jesus, the son of God, will soon return to remedy the ills of our sick society. Poch Suzara

God's Love

If God does not love the Jews, His chosen people, why should God love the Filipinos, His Christian people? The difference between a Christian and a Jew is that the former is a lunatic, the latter idiotic. But then again what can be expected of a creator who, at the same time, has always been both diabolic and angelic? Ah, let’s not ignore the Muslim – bombastic, drastic, and fanatic! Poch Suzara

Our World

Our world will be destroyed not by science but by religion. Even the wild animals whom no one can accuse of being Muslims or Christians or Jews will be destroyed. Such is the power of madness - the gift from the gods. As to why the gods are mad at our world - your opinon is just as stupid as everyone elses. Poch Suzara

Only in the Philippines

I want to be a doctor when I grow up so I can be a nurse. I want to be a librarian when I grow up. I don’t have to read books. I Just need to put them in shelves or pull them out of shelves and get wages for my intellectual work.” Poch Suzara

Prayer Works

Prayer works. But only for Catholics. Ask Erap. He prayed to God for pardon. Our Catholic president GMA with God's approval pardoned ex-president Erap for his crimes against the Republic of the Philippines.Too bad Adam and Eve were not Catholics. Nobody told them about the power of prayer. The original Sin need not have given birth to Catholicism. Poch Suzara

Free Will

Free will - God’s greatest gift to man. But if you have the free will to be a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim¸ then there is either something wrong with God or something wrong with free will. For my part, I’d rather have good will and wish the Christian and the Jews and the Muslim to stop hating and stop killing each other so we can all helped establish peace on earth and goodwill to all men. To count on God for the creation of world peace and sanity has always proved foolish. Poch Suzara

The Customer

The customer is always right. Not, however, according to God with Adam and Eve. They were not only wrong, but humiliated also, stripped off their dignity and self-respect as God’s first customers. Poch Suzara

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

My Kind of Prayer

“God give us all we need so that we can give those in need.” Deut. 15:7-11.
Here is my kind of prayer: “God, never mind giving to me. Just give to them. After all, yours is the power, the kingdom, and the glory. Lord, I have nothing and nothing is more than enough for me! Poch Suzara

Cycle of Life

A man gives love in order to get sex. A woman gives sex in order to get love. In either case, the result is a child born and raised and taught to believe not in the biological union between a male sperm and a female egg, but only to believe what the religious morons have been teaching for centuries - that God made man in his own image and likeness. Poch Suzara

Right or Wrong

Perhaps, no one is right or wrong. Each is simply on a different level of consciousness. Unfortunately, most people have not been educated enough to expand or to increase their level of consciousness. They have only been indoctrinated to carry on in life by being thoughtless, if not mindless. Poch Suzara

Fear

As fear become rampant people turn to God. Unfortunately, there is an increasing sense even among the religious morons themselves that the word GOD now rings with a hollow emptiness. At any rate, it is good to know that most Christians are beginning to wake up to the fact that Christianity came into being first and foremost as a death-conquering religion. Sadly, however, achieved with sacred lies and other biblical promises. Such that death is not the end of life, but the beginning of a new chapter in life.

Now modern physicists have scientifically dissolved into nothing the materiality of matter. A body, in our case the human body is, in the ultimate analysis, nothing but a system of bundled energy – a thing that can never be created or destroyed. Poch Suzara

Most Men

Most men love to play the game of cards, balls, clubs, rackets, boards, suits, sticks, wheels, rods, bows and arrows and guns.

With me, the mental freak that I am, rightly or wrongly, I only love to play with ideas. Ideas, no doubt, have tremendously encouraged me to examine my own life as I found it worth living.

The love of playing with ideas seemed more glorious, incomparably, than the lust of the ways of the flesh and the dross of the world. For my part, I hardly wanted millions. I only wanted answers to my questions! “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.” For me, mental health is the best kind of wealth. Poch Suzara

It is Understandable

It is understandable why Jesus never lived in a happy home and never enjoyed love and affection from either of his parents during his upbringing. After all, his father never married his mother.

Jesus said, and I could hardly blame him: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Poch Suzara

What's Evil about our Government

What’s evil about our government? The high officials! They seek nothing except wealth, power, and glory for themselves. When they do, however, achieve “success in life,” they only continue to be selfish, greedy, stupid, insecure and socially insane.

What our country needs now is not only love and the greater knowledge about the nature of love, in all its complexity, especially what it really means to love a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Poch Suzara

More On Death

Here’s Bertrand Russell – my intellectual father. Russell wrote about his own death. He inspired in me fearlessly, if not with equanimity, to face my own death one day: “I believe when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.” Poch Suzara

Death

I do not know what’s the fuss about death. That it is sudden, extended, lengthened, elongated, stretched, or otherwise surprising. But the day we are born is the day we begin dying. In terms of a thousand years, human life is but a day long. In terms of a hundred thousand years, human life is but an hour long. In terms of a million years long, human life is but a minute long. In terms of a hundred million years, human life is split second, flash in the pan, wink of an eye - long. Will Durant, one of my most admired thinker in the intellectual community, wrote about it with courage and dignity: “And yet, what if it is for life’s sake that we must die? In truth, we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such that death seems unforgivable. We are temporary organs of the race, cells in the body of life; we die and drop away that life may remain young and strong. If we were to live forever, growth would be stifled and youth would find no room on the earth. Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the excision of the superfluous.” Poch Suzara

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Change Our Society

We may not be able to change our society. We can, however, change the society of a child by preventing its existence. Not by abortion, but simply by prevention. Especially if such a child were going to be born unloved, unwanted, and unneeded by parents who neither have the gumption nor the comprehension to realize that to bring forth children into this world is not a matter of divinity. It is more about replenishing the earth with humans with rights to human dignity. Poch Suzara

College-Educated Women

It is incredible how college-educated women of this country are much more at home with the Communion of saints and sinners than they are conversant with the Communion of thinkers and philosophers. And yet, they feel no need of more lecture or exposure to new knowledge - the rare opportunity to interact with it freely as a matter for intellectual growth and maturity? Poch Suzara

Poverty

You may own the titles to kingdoms of the world. But unless you discover the simple pleasures of learning and the simple joys of understanding through the habit of critical reading and thinking you will only continue to be the mediocre victim of poverty, especially the worse kind: the poverty of the mind. Poch Suzara

Life and Death

How can we know of death if we do not know of life? Now, for the sake of argument, let us assume there is life after death. Where in the universe could such a life be found? Consider our cosmic insignificance: Our entire world is only one planet circling one star in a galaxy that contains about 400 billions planets and stars and is itself only one of the several hundred billion galaxies. After death, how exactly or by what means of locomotion do we travel to any of those worlds to start enjoying eternal salvation; or, for that matter, to be start suffering with eternal damnation?

In the meantime, the bible admits: “The living know that they shall die, but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.” Poch Suzara

Conversation With God

God: “I created man and woman with free will and next to the promise of immortal life, free will is my greatest gift to you.” . . . Poch: “Oh God, that’s wonderful. But why did you create Satan also gifted with a free will? Satan even possessed the power to transform himself into a Talking Serpent – more subtil than any beast of the field in your biblical paradise!” Poch Suzara

Impossible With Men

Things impossible with men are possible with God. – Luke 18:27. So, how come it was never impossible with men to have created a God in their own image and likeness? In fact, I never found it impossible to have created for myself not a God, but a Goddess. Poch Suzara

UST and HARVARD

Harvard University already produced more than 48 Nobel Laureates. These are men whose reputation for commitment to humane values and to the pursuit of the truth may be challenged. Nevertheless, Nobel Prize Winners have made authentic contribution to science and to human civilization.
Nobel prizes won by the faculty members of University of San Thomas? None yet. To think UST is older than Harvard by some 50 years. UST, however, has already produced thousands of priests and nuns who, during these past centuries are still preaching to Filipinos to love not this world, neither the things that are in this world! Poch Suzara

Christ's Love

Christ’s love creates unity out of diversity. Phil Star 9/29/2007.
I ask: where is Christ’s love for the unity among Filipinos and for the unity of the Philippine government? To think that no other Asian people, except the Filipinos have always rendered deep faith in Christ since Christianity conquered the Philippines some 500 years ago! Poch Suzara

Sunday, September 16, 2007

More On Religious Morons

Religious morons would never, understandably, attempt to think for themselves on life’s greatest question on God and religion. They would rather let other religiously superior morons figure out the theological mess for them. Poch Suzara

Saturday, September 15, 2007

William Mckinley 1843-1901

On his decision as President of the United States of America to claim the Philippine Islands for the United States in 1899, Mckinley said:

“There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could for them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.”

Mckinley must have been a religious moron who seriously read and clearly understood bible messages. In Luke 19:27. Christ said: “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them for me.” That’s exactly what the Americans did to Filipinos in the Philippines in Christ’s name.

Poor Mckinley, he did not know that the Filipinos were already enjoying the failure of values and beliefs under the success of Christianity in the Philippines since the 16th century. Poch Suzara

If Jesus Were a Jew

f Jesus were a Jew born in Nazareth, why didn’t the Jews know of him? Search all the ancient Jewish literature. It yields no evidence of any historical Jesus. In fact, if a man could perform fantastic miracles like raising himself back to life from death – it will be recorded in world history. No such historical record exists. Poch Suzara

Why Are There Atheists

There are atheists because there are so many religions each hating and killing the other down here in God’s name and for his glory up there. I am an atheist because I cannot believe in a God who is cold-blooded in perfection and so engrossed in self-admiration and so proud of human wars and annihilation. Poch Suzara

Hazing and Praying

Hazing is senseless, brutal and barbaric. There is no place for it in a decent and a sane society.
So how come praying which is just as selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane always has a place in our sick society? Indeed, if prayer works, if someone out there listens to our prayers, how come we only need to utter more prayers? And if that were not enough, to utter even more prayers! Poch Suzara

Think Tank

A so-called “Think Tank” is proposing to add a 5th year to high school, because it claims that the 10 years of primary and high school education are not enough to prepare students for college.
What a bunch of morons. Instead of eliminating stupid subjects such as religion that have no bearing at all with reality and instead teach more science and the scientific way of thinking - students can succeed with less number of years in acquiring genuine education to play a serious part to get this country really growing, maturing, and developing. Poch Suzara

What's Wrong with the Philippines

We are a nation of boys and girls, not of intellectually matured men and mentally strong women. We are a nation devoid of human dignity and self-respect... Millions of Pinoys are proud to identify themselves as college educated Christians. None are proud to say that they are college-educated Rizalian. What’s wrong with the Philippines? To find out, you need not travel far. Just visit any school, college, or university near your place! They are not educational but commercial - enterprises. They are places where students learn first and foremost to have more faith in Jesus – the Savior of the world... Indeed, they are places where millions of young Filipinos learn to have faith not in the power of knowledge, but in the power of prayer. Jose Rizal courageously wrote about this horror, and yet only a handful of Filipinos are fully aware of the Rizalian message. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

College-Educated Economists

The college-educated economists employed in our government have yet to publicly acknowledge a simple economic truth: Economic growth can only be a reality if there were no reckless population growth. Indeed, more mouths to feed eats up and swallows the economic pie faster than it can be made to grow bigger and longer and wider. Poch Suzara

Who is a Moron

Any college educated Christian who keeps active and alive the lies, myths, misconceptions and distortions wrapped around Jose Rizal's life, works, and writings is a moron; especially if he does it for the glory of Jesus in the Philippines. I should know. I was one hell of a moron during my school days at De La Salle University.

Of course, there are morons by degrees. The highest are those who believe that RP-Rizal forum was established to help Rizal admirers learn more about Rizal’s life, works, and writings and why he was executed as a great thinker but that he retracted, carried a rosary in his hand, wore a scapular around his neck, kissed the Jesus crucifix and died as a repentant Catholic. In the meantime, the books written by Rizal remain as banned books in all Catholic schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

Deadly Proverbs

Trust Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon own understanding. Proverbs 3:5. Discipline your children, and … they will give delight to your heart. Proverbs 29:17. How, for Jehovah’s sake, will we ever be able to understand the values of inner discipline if we do not lean upon the beauty of our own heart to shape the beauty of the heart and mind of our own children? Especially to learn how not to be a disgrace, but only to be a grace to the human race? Poch Suzara

Newspaper Headline

Campaign to save hungry children stepped up. But unless there’s also a the bigger campaign to step up making birth control and family planning a stark reality, there will be a never-ending supply of hungry children living under subhuman conditions in the Philippines.
In 1947 our population was at 18 million. Sixty years later, today in 2007 our population is at 88 million. I ask those newspaper columnists who are still insisting that there is no population growth problem in the Philippines: how have we enjoyed growth, maturity, and development as a nation? It seems clear enough our economic pie, instead of getting bigger, has only been getting smaller. Again, I ask: If God so loved the world, how has He loved the Philippines considering his only Son Jesus is more loved, worshipped, and adored here than anywhere else in the whole of Asia today? Poch Suzara

Bible Readers

Bible readers have yet to figure out why God gifted the Talking Serpent with a free will. Just exactly like those he gifted to Adam and Eve in paradise. Due to free will our first parents ended up punished by God. The Talking Serpent though cursed by God nevertheless ended up scot-free with his free will. The crawling animal, however, is still alive today in the shape of a supernatural moron. Popularly known as the devil! Quite at home and happy existing in the Philippines and deeply involved in its system of education. Poch Suzara

Atheists have No Need to Be in Foxholes

That there are no atheists in foxholes is not an argument against the atheists. It is an argument in favor of foxholes. We atheists do not kill other atheists for not believing in God. We atheists therefore have no need to dig foxholes. Poch Suzara

Foreign Investment

Any one can see that there far more security guards posted everywhere in our sick society than there are policemen posted anywhere. Indeed, security guards are posted to guard banks, money changer outlets, schools, universities, restaurants, coffee shops, shopping malls, jewelry stores, pawnshops, churches, cathedrals, residential villages, hotels, motels, government buildings, office buildings, residential condominiums, beach resorts, movie theaters, sports complex, newspaper headquarters, airports, harbors and piers, even the palace of the Archbishop of Manila as well protected by security guards.
Now which foreign investor would be interested to risk investing capital in this God-fearing, faith-soaked, corrupt-ridden, crime infested, and only Catholic country in Asia? Of course the foreign criminals would be happy to come here to be among his peers. Poch Suzara

My Aim in Life

The true division of humanity is between those few who think and those many who believe. My aim is to increase the number of those who think, and decrease the number of those who believe. Indeed, to always be on the side of human liberty that enhances universal felicity.
I'd rather see a world populated with intelligent men without religion, than see a world populated with religious men without intelligence. Indeed, religion has had thousands of years of opportunities to change and improve our world. It is time for human intelligence to take over. Poch Suzara

Pray to Mary

To pray to Jesus as God, or to pray to God as Jesus seems to me a mockery against human decency. Isn’t it more than enough that we already pray daily to Mary, the Mother of God, to pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen? Poch Suzara

It is Religiculous

It is religiculous to believe that God can create immortal human souls, but cannot create immortal human bodies. But then again, what is there to save about the silly soul since it is already immortal and therefore deathless?
There is an explanation for everything. If there were things, however, that cannot be explained, then such things are not worth believing. Poch Suzara

The Cry Baby

“Even when I walk through a dark valley, I feel no harm. For you are at my side, your rod and staff give me courage…” Psalm 23:3. These could only be the childish cries of a cry baby. One who has been taught to believe that superstitions and myths are facts, so that as a faithful believer, the clergy of his religion has full control over his life’s purpose. The control comes under the guise of “god” developed out of fear, continues to exist in fear, and ruled by fear. This fear is god itself: fear of the unknown, fear of death, fear of the mystery, fear of reality, fear of not being wanted or needed, indeed, fear of being different. In the meantime, the power of the clergy comes from nowhere except from human ignorance. Poch Suzara

Monday, September 03, 2007

On Jose Rizal

This piece is dedicated to our teachers and professors in charge to carry out Republic 1425, better known as the Rizal Law. It prescribes the teachings of Rizal’s life, works, and writings in our schools, colleges, and universities. May the youth of our land learn more to understand and appreciate this rare and great Filipino who highly valued science, the scientific way of thinking, and technology. He was executed due to, if not because of, - the power of prayer and theology. RP-Rizal Forum The main purpose of this forum has been to invite Rizal admirers to discuss the hero’s life, works, and writings. However, to learn from him not as a great man of historical creativity, intellectual activity, and especially science and philosophy; but to learn, only and sadly, something like whether Rizal was Chinese, Filipino, or Spaniard; or that if he had sired Hitler; or that Rizal was more of a catholic than he was a man of ideas, reason and logic. Indeed, to help spread more lies, myths, and childish misconceptions, if not outright distortions wrapped around him by the religious morons – the enemies of Rizal. The same evil today still pretty much in authority over the lives of millions of Filipinos. The same evil in this country promoting nothing but more of the same old biblical gimcrackery, if not ancient sacerdotal mediocrity. Rizal wrote: “We have noticed that the countries which believe most in miracles are the laziest, just as spoiled children are the most ill-mannered. Whether they believe in miracles to palliate their laziness or they are lazy because they believe in miracles, we cannot say; but the fact is the Filipinos were much less lazy before the word miracle was introduced into their language.” Today, however, thanks to the priorities of this Rp-Rizal forum – we still have nothing going for us as a nation except to wait for a miracle – especially the miracle as promised in the “New Testament.” Or, the miracle as promised by our stupid politicians - the one better known as “foreign investment.” In the meantime, other Asian countries, have be growing and maturing and developing: they have been substantiating what Rizal had been saying more than a century ago: invest time and energy in education and enlightenment via science, the scientific way of thinking, and technology. Thus far, Rizal is characterized not as an innovative thinker, scientific doubter, truth seeker, or a man of vision – a great man who tried to put intelligent beauty into this country where stupid religion has only been generating economic perversity, political stupidity and, social insanity. On this forum Rizal continues to be represented not as a thinker of great impact, or as a writer on the side of common human decency; but only as a hero killed by his enemies but that Rizal’s enemies must remain our true and faithful friends. After all, Rizal’s enemies introduce to us the concept of faith in Jesus – the Savior of the world. Hell, we Filipinos do not suffer from a social cancer. We are the victims of a religious cancer. Our blind faith sees to it that we never see it. We are proud to be college educated Christians. Who amongst us can, instead, proudly say that we are college educated Filipinos? We, the freethinkers, humanists, and heretics of this forum have had no recourse but to keep reviving, resuscitating, nay, exhuming Rizal out the cemetery to present him as one of us – alive and kicking - men of active intelligence gifted with lively analysis to assume on our shoulders what Rizal can no longer do: to continue with courage his hard struggles against the cancer called religion. The same religious disease today that’s keeping the Filipino spiritually twisted as a people and morally distorted as a nation. Look how in this 21st century, Filipinos continue to kill fellow-Filipinos. Why not? Our schools, colleges, and universities continue to teach that love of country is not that lasting; or, love of fellow-citizens is not that lasting. But that there is a better world to come after death with Jesus in heaven that will be far more everlasting. What a crock of sacred lies to keep us Filipinos aimless as a people and rudderless as a nation! Forget the Knights of Rizal. They too continue to keep the true Rizal neither graspable nor reachable to everyone. They have proven themselves more at home with the writings of Moses than they should be promoting the writings of Rizal. The aim of Rizal’s Noli and Fili was to awaken our minds and hearts as Filipinos. That we belong to our own country to love and that we must promote its welfare. The Rizal Knights, however, have not even been bothered by the historical fact that Rizal has been used, abused, and misused not just to keep the Filipino confused mentally, but also to keep the Filipino inspired to enjoy social mediocrity, political stupidity, economic perversity. We have yet to hear from individual knights of Rizal throwing their bible out the window. They are no different from those religious morons who had planned, quite surreptitiously, to get Rizal facing a firing squad. Indeed, to get Rizal dead and out of the way in order to protect the lucrative business of selling Jesus – the son of a Virgin Mary, Mother of God whom millions of Filipinos pray daily to pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen!