FOR WITH GOD NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. Luke 1:37 - NO KIDDING?

For with God, nothing shall be impossible. Luke 1:37

No Kidding? What a lot of farce, fraud, and ceremony. Indeed, a lot of spiritual delusions based on lies and deceptions.

If nothing shall be impossible with God, how come it has been possible with God to cure blindness only in one person; to cure leprosy only in    one person; to make the lame walk again only in one person.

Indeed, how come  it has always been impossible with God to make diseases no longer contagious? Miraculously make only health contagious? - - - Poch Suzara

                                                                                       

Life After Death Corruption Deal as a Religious Arrangement

YES TO THIS, AS POCH SAID:    I said it before, I say it again: stop teaching Filipino children in school to believe that there is a God existing up out there always ready and available to forgive all of our sins and crimes at any time. Or, that such a God will always open the gates of heaven to those who open their hearts to Him. This is the kind of a sick education that promotes nothing but sick corruption for our sick society to remain sick forever and ever. Even our sick and corrupt government officials are so happy and proud of the sick and insane religious arrangement! helen 

Questions are Far More Precious than the Answers

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to learn. - - - Neil Postman

Indeed, questions are far more precious than the answers because the answers, in reality, become obsolete. Consider the nature of reality: each unfolding reality contains the seeds of its own destruction and the embryo of a new reality that will replace it. After I got myself expelled out          of La Salle high school, I carried on with what in fact got me expelled: I carried on habitually           in life questioning not only about this or that something; but questioning everything. - - - Poch   Suzara

For This Christmas I will celebrate not the Birth of a Jewish Son of God, but Man's Capacity to Think

We are told that we are saved not by what we do but by trusting what Christ has done. To think that this is the same Christ who was born of   a Jewish family in a Jewish town under Jewish history, culture, and tradition some 2,000 years ago. Israel today is not even a Christian country. It is a Jewish State populated by Jews, ruled by Jews, and inspired by Judaism – a major religion that does not celebrate Christmas – the Birth    of Christ.  In this already 21st century, if Christ cares not to save his native fellow-Jews in Israel, why should Christ bother to save the Filipinos or even save the Philippines? 

In the meantime, I say it again: the pleasures in growth and positive achievement, the love of life, happy, expansive, generous, and creative; glad when others happy, and not glad when others are not happy - are the precious things on my mind while I celebrate Christmas this year. Indeed, for this Christmas, I should wish to celebrate the birth of the Filipino capacity to think, especially to think  in terms of growth as a healthy people, and in terms of development as a wealthy nation.

I have no wish to celebrate the birth anniversary of Christ, but only to celebrate instead the birth of the the power of thought to love the truth, beauty, knowledge, and the joys of this life in this world in the here and now. These will do for Christmas this year; however, for Christmas next year, I may wish to celebrate Christmas with higher or more meaningful reasons; specially with nothing to do with the birth of a Jewish Son of a Jewish God.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU.

                                                                                     Poch Suzara

Life After Death is a Sick Joke

 

If there were life after death in heaven,

how come our dead loved-ones never

visit us the living on earth? It is we, the 

living, who visits our dead loved-ones

in the cemeteries. 

Obviously, life after death is a sick joke 

since the dead cannot even laugh at the

living visiting the faithfools in the cemetery.

                                          Poch Suzara

- - - Poch Suzara

A LIST OF MY GREAT FRIENDS

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.                                                       

                                                                     Japanese Proverb 

                                                                     

Oh Yes, may I say if I continue to be an unclear character on 

these pages, please look at the friends that I  gradually developed 

down through the years after I got expelled out of La Salle high 

school at the age of 13: Bertrand Russell, Will Durant, Robert G. Ingersoll, Carl Sagan, George H. Smith, Jean Meslier, Jose Rizal, 
Richard Dawkins,  Mark Twain,  Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, 
Thomas Paine, Madlyn Murray O'Hair, H.L. Mencken, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Joseph McCabe, Karl Marx, Ellen Johnson, Carl Jung,

 friedrich Nietzche, Albert Camus, Thomas Jefferson, Ernest Hemmingway, Stephen Hawking, Clarence Darrow, Charlie Chaplin, Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Isaac Asimov, Walt Whitman, Lee Carter, John Shelby Spong, Socrates, Hypatia, and more, many 

many many more. The great men and great women in world history

who have had the intellectual courage to put more beauty into this world where frightened little men and frightened little women have 

put only horrors of childish beliefs and silly values such as the pursuit not of veracity, but only of money if not more mendacity! 

If there were life after death, these are the great men and great women I'd like to meet first and foremost to thank them for having written books for me to read and to study.  - - - Poch Suzara

Faith Means We Should Live a Life of Fear

Faith is fear.

Religion is the systematic marketing of fear.

Blessed are the poor (donate heavily).

Blessed are the meek (obey).

Blessed are the humble (don’t question authority).

Blessed are the hungry (make us rich while you starve).

Blessed are the merciful (if you catch us doing something

wrong, let it go).

Blessed are the pure of heart (switch off your brain).

Blessed are the timid, the cowardly, the fearful. Blessed

are those who give us their power to become slaves.

That’s the kind of nonsense religion pushes on people. They

train you to turn your back on courage, strength, and conscious

living. This is stupidity, not divinity.

Religion will teach you to fear being different, to fear standing

up for yourself, and to fear being an independent thinker. It will

erode your self-trust by explaining why you’re unable to successfully manage life on your own terms: You are unworthy. You’re a sinner.

You’re unclean. You belong to a lesser caste. You are not enlightened.

Of course the solution is always the same — submit to the will of an

external authority. Believe that you’re inadequate. Give away your

power. Follow their rules and procedures. Live in fear for the rest

of your life, and hope it will all turn out okay in the end.

When you practice faith instead of conscious living, you live under

a cloak of fear. Eventually that cloak becomes so habitual you forget

it’s even there. It’s very sad when you reach the point where you

can’t even remember what it feels like to wield creative freedom over

your own life, independent of what you’ve been conditioned to believe.

Faith is the coward’s substitute for courage. It’s also really good marketing if you’re the one who controls the faith. If you’re afraid or unwilling to assume total responsibility for your life, you’re a perfect match for religion.

Fear in one part of your life invariably spreads to all other parts — you can’t compartmentalize it. If you find yourself frustrated because you’re too afraid to follow your dreams, to talk to members of the opposite sex, to speak up for yourself, etc., then a good place to start is to rid your life of all religious nonsense. Don’t let fear get a foothold in your consciousness.

Stop trying to comfort yourself by swallowing religious rubbish. If you really need something to believe in, then believe in your own potential. Put your trust in your own intellect. Stop giving away your power.

Dump the safety-in-numbers silliness. Just because a lot of people believe stupid stuff doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid. It just means that stupidity is popular on this planet. When people are in a state of fear, they’ll swallow just about anything to comfort themselves, including the bastion of stupidity known as religion.

Religion is spiritual immaturity. It’s entirely possible to enjoy your life without spending so much of it bent over in submission. Pull your head out of your rear, and look around with your own two eyes. If you need something to worship, then feel grateful for your own conscious mind. Pull it out of the cobwebs, and boot it up.

Besides… if some popular religious version of God does exist, there’s a good chance he’s a complete and total idiot. He made us in his image, right? So perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to worship an entity so lacking in intelligence. We’re better off on our own.

God isn’t going to smite you for not formally worshipping him. If he didn’t smite me by now, it’s a safe bet you’ll slide beneath the radar as well. And if that doesn’t work, you can borrow my fake ID. I’ve been baptized and confirmed, and I’m the son of an altar boy and the nephew of a priest, so I’m sure I’ll be fine. - - - Steve Pavlina

                                                                                    

COMMENT:

Thanks to schools, colleges, and universities established with the financial support of the church in the Philippines, the majority of Filipinos are born not to be educated to be the intelligent masters of health, hygiene, and sanitation. Filipinos are born to be the sick victims of religion in cahoots with corruption. Indeed, for the greater glory of God up there, we Filipinos are born to enjoy a corrupt and a sick society as the Sick Man of Asia down 

here. - - - Poch Suzara

                                                                        

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Why are Atheist Always Talking About God

    

The reason that we always talk about God as if he exists, it's because we atheists enjoy entertaining the idea of God's existence by pointing out the fallacies in this belief.

 Atheists love to discuss God because belief in God is so widespread and there are billions of people who follow major religions. There are churches and mosques everywhere and God is even imprinted on the US dollar. In every classrooms of schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines hangs the little statue of Jesus - the Son of God. It's the same in every hospital rooms.

On the other hand, if God exists and is all-powerful, all-knowing, exists here, there, and everywhere - why bother to teach the existence of God to children in school? Isn't it enough that God is already existing in schools?

 Are we atheists contradicting ourselves by giving our reasons why what the mediocre and the Philistines are always talking about a lot of childish dogma, pigma, and hogma?

Opinions are for everyone. I am an atheist and I enjoy debating and discussing religion.  

Talking about a subject and hearing points from all sides will only provide benefits. 

Shutting people out makes for the sick believers and the sick followers of a sick religion.

Is there anything weird about a pacifist who does not believe in war and yet he is always writing and talking about the evils of war? - - -Poch Suzara

  RESPONSE FROM HELEN:

POCH, I AM 100% AGREEING WITH WHAT YOU POSTED HERE.  EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT GOD. EVEN COOCKOOS DISCUSS ABOUT THIS GOD EVERYWHERE.  YOU SEE THEM HOLDING THE BIBLE IN THE STREET CAR, IN SUBWAYS TRAINS, ON THE SIDE OF THE STREET, SCREAMING ON TOP OF THEIR LUNGS ABOUT JESUS OR THIS GOD; ON TV, ON INTERNET, FACEBOOK, MAGAZINES, BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, IN COURT, HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS (AS YOU SAID, WHICH I KNOW), ETC., ETC..  

I AM VERY MUCH OPEN WITH ANYTHING THAT TEACHES AND ENLIGHTEN ME WHETHER IT IS NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE.  RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, MOSTLY THE FANATICS AND FUNDAMENTALISTS, THEY HATE READING, SEEING, AND HEARING SOMETHING NEW, POCH.  THEY HATE CHANGE.  CHANGE TO THEM IS EVIL, YET IT MEANS GROWTH IN MANY FORMS.  THEY CANNOT ACCEPT THAT THEY HAD BEEN BRAINWASHED SINCE THEY WERE BORN.  THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR MINDS IN SUCH A WAY THE BRAIN WAS SET PERMANENTLY.  THEY HAVE CREATED AN INVISIBLE COCOON THAT NO ONE CAN PENETRATE.   THEY DO NOT EVEN KNOW NOR REALIZE THAT THEY ARE BRAINWASHED.  

COMMON SENSE DICTATES, FROM THE TIME WE WERE BORN WE WERE TOLD BY OUR PARENTS, RELATIVES, TEACHERS, PRIESTS/MINISTERS/PASTORS/EVANGELISTS/LAYPEOPLE (CHURCHES, SYNAGOGUES, CONVENTS AND SCHOOLS FOR PRIESTHOOD, GOVERNMENT (LAWS AND ORDER), AND THE WHOLE SOCIETY INCLUDING NATURE, NOT TO DO THIS, INSTEAD DO THIS.  THIS KIND OF CONTROL GOES ON TILL WE FINISHED UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE, EVEN UP TO THE TIME WE AGE AND DIE.  THIS IS VERY EVIDENT TODAY.  THEY DO NOT REALIZE AFTER SO MANY YEARS, THEY DO NOT EVEN KNOW THEMSELVES - NOT KNOWING THEY ARE NOT THE REAL SELVES.  

IT IS A VERY SAD SITUATION SEEING/WITNESSING SUCH HUMANS LIVING LIKE ROBOTS.  THEY STOP THINKING (AS YOU SAID).  INDEED EDUCATION DOES LITTLE TO LIVE LIFE SENSIBLY AND FULLY.  IT IS, INDEED, MAJORITY OF HUMANS HAVE LOST THEIR OWN BRAINS.  IT IS INDEED VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE SOMEONE LIKE YOU WHO POST DIFFERENTLY, NO MATTER HOW PAINFUL/OFFENSIVE TO READ YOUR POSTINGS. 

BY THE WAY, BEING DEFENSIVE/OFFENSIVE IS A POSITIVE REACTION.  TO ME, IT SUGGESTS THEY ARE TOUCHED BY THE TRUTH OF WHAT YOU POSTED.  DEAR FRIEND, PLEASE GO ON AND ON, AND ON, AND ON, TILL THE JOB IS DONE.  ONE OF NATURE'S LAWS IS NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE ALWAYS GO TOGETHER.  

YOU ARE NOT ALONE ENCOUNTERING SUCH DEFENSIVE RELIGIOUS BRAINWASHED PEOPLE, POCH.  MANY PEOPLE ARE LIKE YOU.  I KNOW YOU HAD BEEN WISHING THE BEST FOR THE PHILIPPINES AND ITS PEOPLE.  I AM POSITIVE, THIS WILL HAPPEN BUT NOT AN OVERNIGHT, MAYBE WHEN YOU AND ME ARE LONG GONE HERE ON EARTH.

I THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, DEAR FRIEND.  PLEASE STAY ON THIS FORUM.

REGARDS,

Helen Twa

from Poch:

My dear Helen, a great many thanks for your great thoughts. I said it before, I say it again: 

If you had been a teacher of mine in La salle grade school and La Salle high school - never would have ever entertained the plan to  eventually get my expelled out of that sick mess  referred to as the sick system of education. - - - Best wishes always, - - - Poch Suzara