October 2010
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Zombies in Haiti →
And to continue with our regular Halloween programming, here’s something from VBS.tv which goes into both the scientific and supernatural backgrounds on the Nzambi or zombies.
The series takes on the history of the zombie fascination and its roots in Haitian culture. VBS also featured some stories of real people believed to have undergone zombie-fication (if such a term and process...
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Good is Power
Good is power, that is the portion of today’s homily which caught my ear. Fr. Raymond Arre of UP’s Parish of the Holy Sacrifice said that…
good has the capability of making people better.
Arre stressed out that in forgiving others and giving them a chance to change themselves, it is important that we put faith in their committment to change and not set conditions for their...
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In a Disused Graveyard
Robert Frost
The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
The verses in it say and say:
“The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.”
So sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet can’t help marking all the time
How no one dead will...
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Creepy Celebrity Costume Predictions →
I tell you, you won’t believe what you’ll find!
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Mohandas Gandhi: Common misconceptions about the... →
mohandasgandhi:
Including many I’ve seen on Tumblr, corrected:
There is no exclusive right to privacy. Many Supreme Court judges have interpreted the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 9th Amendments to include clauses that grant rights of privacy.
The terms “separation of church and state,” “separation of powers,” and “checks and balances” do not appear in the Constitution. However, the functions of each...
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I Write As I Write: The Age of Unilateralism is... →
iwriteasiwrite:
I’ve been sitting on this and just decided to publish it now. For kicks and giggles. And that way I can now proceed to fill my tumblr with fun Halloween stuff.
At the heart of superpower foreign policy of the 20th century was the unassailable assumption that the world must conform to unilateral modes of policy formation. Close to home, the US grand experiment with the...
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No Salvation Outside the Poor
Since I have already posted much about Latin America, Liberation Theology and the Jesuits, I might as well share some thoughts from Jon Sobrino, SJ in his book No Salvation Outside the Poor. Here are some excerpts from the book, which I think speak much of the kind of society most “democracies” now have become:
Regarding spirit and values, this civilization (of wealth) is...
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“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are...”
– Voltaire
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iwriteasiwrite:
Morricone: The Mission -...
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On Climate Change and Illegal Logging... →
iwriteasiwrite:
One of the clearest indicators for me is the acceleration in species extinction in the last 50 or so years.
What irritates me a little is how, in developed nations, the issue of man’s impact on the environment has become highly politicized. There should be no doubt that certain practices have a negative impact on the environment, you can quibble with regards to how influential...
“I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein...”
– Khalil Gibran (via caraobrien)
The Link Between Animal Abuse and Serial Killers
tamburina:
Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz and Jeffrey Dahmer have more in common than just being serial killers. These three murderers are also connected by the fact that each of them tortured and/or killed animals during their childhoods. Researchers as well as FBI and other law enforcement agencies nationwide have linked animal cruelty to domestic violence, child abuse, serial killings and to the...
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Thanatophile
tamburina:
A thanatophile is a person fascinated by death and death related subjects such as true crime stories and murder mysteries.
I don’t know if I can actually be called this since my fascination of death and related subjects was a result of covering crime stories and not being able to get over dubious conclusions in some of the cases.
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Suicides, ropes, and shoestrings
A few days ago, a man was found dead in Gulf Air flight to the Philippines. Apparently the man had committed suicide in the toilet using the drawstring of his jacket, which was found tied around his throat. Incidentally, this was the same Gulf Air flight where a month ago, a newly-born baby was also found in the toilet.
What struck me was not that it was the same plane was where the baby and the...
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ehalcyon asked: Hi there,
I just came across your post about climate change. I think the reason some academics doubt climate change might be because they are taking in the LONG view of global climate. Recent weather patterns may seem abnormal in the context of a single human lifespan, but weather patterns change over time - perhaps the world has gone through these "intense" patterns...
I just came across your post about climate change. I think the reason some academics doubt climate change might be because they are taking in the LONG view of global climate. Recent weather patterns may seem abnormal in the context of a single human lifespan, but weather patterns change over time - perhaps the world has gone through these "intense" patterns...
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Still doubt Climate Change?
A year ago, I was in a lecture in the University of the Philippines where one professor made a small comment on climate change. The professor was among many in the academe who believed that there is no such thing as climate change. And this was even after Typhoon Ketsana, locally known as Ondoy, hit the Philippines and caused so much death and destruction. I tell you, he is not alone. There are a...
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George W. Bush = Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
etrehumain:
ellobofilipino:
passgasinartclass:
this shirt is mine. thanks internet sleuths!
We should come up with a Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo version!
Oh my God, I appreciated this Philippines reference so much.
I couldn’t resist it Cuyler. They just share a lot of things:
Their terms (2001-2009)
Accusations of electoral fraud
Obsession with the War on Terror
Massive human...
What the Internet Knows About You →
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“I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 