Abolish Pork Barrel?

Solution?

What's your take on the Million March for the Abolition of Pork Barrel tomorrow, guys?

My take: is it really the abolition of park barrel that's needed or something else?

What is Reality?

Really, what is it?

Unicorns do exist. The question is "in what reality?"

"What is reality?"

Let me ask you: are you a real person?

What makes a person real, then? Consciousness?

Okay, let me ask then: Are you conscious?

Yes? Prove it.

Yes, that's it. You can't prove it. But you think you ARE a real person, right?

What makes a Friend?

"True friendship... is infinite and immortal." - Plato

I really like this book by John C. Maxwell, as seen below:

A simple book on friendship. It contains stories about friendship and what friends do for each other.

Gratitude

Gratitude is something that we all know about, and I just want to talk about how I think it's awesome.

Some Quotes and What I Think:

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” ― Meister Eckhart

We sometimes tend to pray to ask for things that we don't have, and forget to say thanks for the things we do have, and it's nice to be reminded of it.

Is Religion Necessary to Love?

Really sensible quote, as I see it.

What Religion Does to Us

Do we actually need a religion to know how to live as a good person, to have what we call "morals" or "ethics"? Do we need religion to tell us about love and God? Is religion necessary at all?

Hitler, Colombine, Kony, etc. - how it's NOT just THEIR fault

What the Hell?

Must be hot in there.

The notion of sin, hell, and fear, has never made sense to me. I mean, if God really loves you infinitely, and knew about the imperfections that human beings have, why will God's patience be finite in that he can send you forever to eternal damnation?

Alien-Induced Evolution?

Momma, where did Humans come from?

According to Darwinian theory of Evolution, the human species is derived from the primates. Nature makes adaptations to stimuli for better survival. I ask though what was the stimulus that made the evolution of humans so fast from not-so-smart hunched quadruped hairy primates in the trees to upright bipeds who basically ruled the world with their minds?

WHY do you even STUDY?

Why do we study?

For those of us who go to universities or schools, we know how it is. All the requirements we have to pass, the grades we need to get a certain mark for us to get honours (let alone pass), the routinised schedule of going to a certain class at a certain time with a certain professor and certain classmates - these constitute the school experience.

How do you feel about all this, though?

Beginnings...

I've always been a truth-seeker.

Ever since I can remember, I've questioned why things are the way that they are. I've always been interested in the reason people did things. Why some people have more than others; why there were certain behaviours that we had to adopt to be considered as civilised; why there is a notion of normal and abnormal; why we had to sleep every night; why we had dreams; why there are so many religions and teachings about what spiritual reality is; why there was birth, war, poverty, sickness, death, etc ; basically, WHY ALL THIS?