POST 144 PHILOSUFFER

Chooseday morn
Feb. 03?, 2009
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I took a long hard look at this "BOBBY ESQUIVEL" of MMDA sidewalk clearing operations... But I don't remember having had a classmate who looks like him... But that was more than twenty years ago... Aging can change the face of a person... The Esquivel classmate of mine in one philosophy class of long time ago was quite fluent in English with Americanized accent... From my memory he looks more like this WILLIE REVILLAME of WOWOWEE!... I remember our classroom was in the CHEMISTRY PAVILION of UP DILIMAN PALMA HALL CAS... He gave a sharp rebuttal against our teacher regarding LEIBNIZ's BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS which amused me then... His down-to-earth/practical sense was the perfect antithesis of the
armchair philosopher's pipe dream-theories... His idea concerned HUMAN SUFFERING...
HUMAN SUFFERING subsumed under PROBLEM OF EVIL is one of the biggest if not the strongest counter to RELIGION & THE EXISTENCE OF GOD... ... THE SILENCE OF GOD... I don't really know how a MUSLIM who has really INTERNALIZED the DEEN should answer this question/problem... The only notion I am aware of involves the idea of QADAR/QADA & INDIVIDUAL WILL vis-a-vis GOD's WILL ISLAAM & MUSLIM are in the ARABIC both derived from the SLM root including SaLaaM which means PEACE... ISLAAM = surrender, MUSLIM - one who surrenders (to the WILL of the SUPREME BEING)... THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL vs DETERMINISM - a PERENNIAL heavy question in PHILOSOPHY... Why should a being who is not totally free be held completely responsible for his actions... This is why EXISTENTIALISTs like CAMUS & SARTRE have come up with their PESSIMISTIC positions... But I did not intend this BLOG of mine to have anything to do with PHILOSOPHY...

SOME COMMENTS ON THE BBCNN NEWS:
-SNOW in LONDON... The past December & early January the climate/weather was very cold... I was tempted to take a crack at this popularized "GLOBAL WARMING" Maybe that's the explanation for the TONS of SNOW in FRANCE, UK & SPAIN! "CLIMATE CHANGE" is my prefered more scientific term instead of GLOBAL WARMING which I believe is a racket...
-BBC presented DARWIN the Theorist of Evolution (Evilution)
-BBC claims CHINA lost 20 Million jobs... I think this figure is overexaggerated...
-Chinese leader visits England... A strategic move by China? The news mentioned DALAI LAMA in hospital...

My unsolicited advice to CHINA:
As an ASIAN leader looked up to like INDIA, CHINA should find & follow the best strategy in the current crisis that will guarantee in the end the RISE of ASIA... [Easier said than done!] Of course, the WEST is wary of the ASIANs uniting as one & they will use local & regional problems to their advantage, not to mention the unthinking MASSES of MUSLIMS under the yoke of their STOOP leaders... I read somewhere that CHINA is considering using GOLD & junking US Bonds/financial instruments worth BILLIONS... WHat would happen to U.S. & the WEST if CHINA goes on with this plan?

I was thinking NOW IS THE TIME FOR REAL REVOLUTION! WHERE ARE THE REVOLUTIONARIES? ARE THEY NOW ONLY IN THE MOVIES? THIS GLOBAL CRISIS (not just GFC) IS THE MOST OPPORTUNE TIME FOR REAL CHANGE (NOT OBAMA SLOGAN) FOR US THE OPPRESSED BILLIONS & BILLIONS OF MASS OF HUMANITY... [I agree being included among the oppressed MASSES but of course NOT the STOOP masses HAR HAR!]

QUESTION: Is the CNN the ALTER EGO of the BBC or what? Is CNN American & BBC British or is it the other way around or are they two sides of the SAME COIN? Movie "National Treasure" mentioned a TWIN - twin table in White House & in the seat of power in London... St. Paul's cathedral? looked like White House... BUT 2009 is there a BLACK MAN in high government position in England?

I'm not sure but I read somewhere in some CONSTHEO sites that the FreeMasonic groups in Continental Europe are MUCH MUCH HIGHER in rank/superiority than those in AMERICA, that the fellows in U.S.A. would all appear as AMATEURs/greenhorns!

TMNP