Reflected thoughts about life and death, and in between

1. If prisoners are said to be un-free, can they look at the sky with freedom? can they freely express their opinion? can they brush their teeth freely?

2. As a nation, do we want our president to eat in a hamburger stand?

3. Info-mercials are new to our modern world. We have to read the message or multiple messages that they are purveying. Communication experts agree on this. Now who benefits and who pays for it, that is one thing we should know.

4. Again the deaths of soldiers and so called rebels are a waste of lives. Lives that cannot be brought back. When shall the killings stop?

5. I guess the reason why babies keeps on arriving in this planet is to give hope to this planet bereft of hope.

6. I think Sen. Miriam Defensor is correct in saying on the info-mercials, "Don't force your faces on us". I think one of the best way is to turn off the TV and talk to your children. Anybody have heard, "Invasion of privacy?"

7. I have nothing against giving the public information. But when this information is burned to our consciousness without let up, my, my, I think that is too much.

8. On this info-mercials, we need to think if the end of their message is really important to us. After they have reached expiry date did it make a difference in our lives?

9. As we are experiencing underdevelopment, endless social conflict, corruption that becomes a collective nightmare, what we are seeing is a culture where we have no roots and sensitivity to others. We are creating rootless society.

10. The political life of a nation will always affect our lives unless we pretend to be dead persons.

11. Leaders and their people always have a complex and bizarre, relationships. Power relationships draws the the line of difference and the safety of the gray area.

12. In the modern time we were able to create a word "hidden agenda". As if it is an esoteric word. Actually this hidden agenda, as "hidden" as it is, is always seen in the bosom of one's interests. it's like the Emperor's new clothes.

13. I was delighted to know that "411" is the jargon for "information" It came from America. That is what you call cultural diffusion.

14. An American boy was called by the teacher and was asked "When was the United States founded"? The boy said, "9-11".

15. When is a statement considered to be, "half-true" and "half-false"?

16. The heart of a lonely runner is the one that is nurtured by love.

19. Escaping a problem may be fun for you. But with certainty, you can't escape yourself.

20. Losing your life direction may be a way of finding it.

21. Only the forgiving heart can melt a heart of steel.

22. "God will not wipe away the tears we never shed. If we shed tears of compassion, it will become tears of love and of joy" - Fr. Guido Argulles SJ

23. Only the man of greed is the one who can turn dreams into spectacular nightmares.

24. If you want to see evil, look for the one who delights in separation.

25. If you want to see evil, look for the one who delights in separation.

26. An email is a reminder that once we use papers to write letters. Placed them inside envelops, sticks the collectors item called stamps.

27. The highest umbrella I can use against the sun are the clouds.

28. I pray that one day rains can wash away our loneliness.

29. "Father why did you want to become a priest?" "Actually I was rejected to become a nun so I became a priest."

30. A dictionary is always a guide to the perplexed.

31. A dog is one who considers him/herself to be a member of the family.

32. A film is around 120-minutes of suspension of disbelief.