Consider...

what have we told this generation?

that: now, is all we have. and like a trapped animal we claw away at the walls.truth has been relegated to technology,beauty is subjugated to the beholder. goodness is mocked night after night as millions are idiotized in front of a box.and we have become manipulated entities in a disposable world.and our experiences have become pragmatic quantities in a disjointed world.

now, is all we got to give to them. seize the moment!because there is no tomorrow. how marvellous it was for the disciples when they broke bread with our lord. how he said to them: as often as you eat of this bread and drink of this cup you now! youproclaim the lord's death in the past until he come in the future. he linked all of time with meaning bcoz the hammers of time beat away at the anvils of eternity and it is eternity that gives meaning to time. and yet eternity is wat it is we've taken away from this generation. now is all they can relate to and the moment is all they can connect with. that is a foundational loss 2x. when you lose the dimension of eternity then you will live pragmatically only for the moment.and pragmatism is to do watever "works". in the long run you will find outpragmatism may not work.



excerpt from peggy nunan..forbes magazine article

we've all have moment wen all of a sudden we look around and thought the world is changing, i'm seeing it change.

this is for me the moment when the new america began: i was at a graduation ceremony at a public hs in njersey. it was 1971 or 72. one by one a stream of blackrobed students walked across the stage and received their diplomas and a pretty young girl with red hair big under her graduation gown walked up and received hers, the auditorium stood and applauded, i looked at my sister and said:"she's gonna have a baby".

the girl was 8mos pregnant and had the courage to go through with her pregnancy and take her finals to finish school despite society's disapproval. but, society wasn't disapproving it was applauding and applause is a right and generous response for a young girl with grit and heart. and yet in the sound of that applause i heard a wall falling, a thousand year old wall, a wall of sanctions that said:"we as a society do not approve of teenage unwed motherhood because it was not good for the child, not good for the mother and not good for us.


the old america had a delicate sense betwen the general "we disapprove" and the particular"let's go and help her". we had the moral confidence to sustain the distance between official disapproval and unofficial succor. the old america would not have applauded the girl in the big graduation gown but some of its individuals wouldive been there to help her not only materialy but with some measure of emotional support. we do not do much of that anymore. for all of our tolerance and talk we dont show much love to what used to be called girls in trouble. and as we've become more open minded we've also become more closehearted.

my message to society is this:"what you applaud you encourage, but beware of what you celebrate".

this distinction that has collapsed between going to help and being asked to celebrate in that the collapse of this distinction is a very serious one.

and i think as you struggle and struggle with this issue of trying to find a moral center you begin to see wat it is that our age has come up with and what it is that it has lost in the process.. was it not robert fitch philosopher of ethics and jurisprudence who said:"ours is an age where ethic has become obsolete, it issuperseded by science, deleted by psychology,and dismissed as emotive by philosophy. it is drowned in compassion, evaporates into aesthetics and retreats before relativism.

the usual moral distinctions between good and bad are simply drowned in a maudlin emotion in which we feel more sympathy for the murderer than the murdered, for the adulterer than for the betrayed. and in which we have actually began to believe tha the real guilty party that the one who somhow caused it all is the victim and not the perpetrator of the crime. that component of morality has become such an acheing aspect of a collapsing foundation here. so wen you do away with eternity you redefine existence. wen youdo away with morality you redefine essence. thirdly and quickly, is the dimension of accountability,it was the french dramatist Mollier(?)who said it this way "it is a public scandal that gives offense, it is no sin to sin in secret" and that of course becomes embodied in a time wen absolutes are jettisoned then privatization takes place and you cannot invade the private realm even though the private realm is in constant violation of the public realm."it is a public scandal that gives offense, it is no sin to sin in secret" -- the dimension of accountability. but here's wat happens wen accountability goes you begin to wrestle with another dimension of it. now you're not only dealing with existence and essence. now you're dealing the eradication of conscience

ravi zacharias;"if foundations be destroyed"

Conversations

hmm.. got a new gimik sa blog.. imaginary conversations between a daughter and a father or between friends ^_^.. hope it pans out.. abangan...

My first attempt at a parable of sorts

knowing over understanding...
learning and growth over contentment and stagnation....
and love, always love over kindness.

Come think..

motives are always crucial in most things.. specially when asking a question..

do you really want an answer? do you want the truth?or do you want something that you can launch off your prejudices?or something to shoot down?

and by the way, the question of validity is valid also for the question and not only for answers given.. hahahaha >;p.. cge lng magkwe-kwento ako ng mga examples dito. hopefully soon. feedback is the fuel to post asap^_^

Blurt

the lover can always think/say how deep and strong he/she loves the lovee

but the lovee can only feel it. not think it. >;p. watchoo think?