Sanfelli Marius Michael C. Hortelano
http.//shortelano.blogspot.com
Holy War? Is their such thing as a holy war? Yes there is. That is jihad. Muslim extremists who have engaged in terrorism dwell the furtherance cause to Jihad which in turn made the killing justified under it. Does this make sense? Of course not.
There are two kinds of Jihad. The first one is defined as “war from within”. For this reason, man has to proclaim war against his wrong doings in an effort for redirection and change. Lay man’s term disclose that this type of jihad is more of a self rehabilitation for purposes of change.
To shed light on the matter, Here’s a concrete example. if you are a smoker, then your jihad is how to stop smoking. Thus, you have your own war to settle and that is to defeat the vice of smoking.
The second one is when a Muslim, without interposing any justifiable grounds, is prohibited the free exercise of Islam. In so doing, an offended Islam religious is justified to declare “jihad” to pursue the free exercise of his religion.
Jihad is in itself bloodless but with exceptions. However, Muslim extremists tend to divert its holy interpretation to make their acts of terrorism justified. They tend to make it appear that the acts of westerners manifests a direct blasphemy of Islam thus, justified for Jihad. And, to at the expense of the life of innocents, they say that they are fighting for the cause of God and religion. Henceforth, if they kill for Allah, their deeds are justified in his name.
Suicide bombers and terrorists suffer the wrong notion of Allah’s purest intention and purpose. Allah is the most merciful in the first place. However, it is sad to note that some subject Jihad to their own unlimited abuse to make themselves holy. Just by mere proclamation that I am fighting for the cause of Islam, freedom to kill will be automatically limitless and, the catch is, you are just to believe that you are fighting for Islam’s cause.
Jihad is “holy war” but its interpretation should not be interpreted in its literal sense. Putting in application the interpretation of jihad would negate the extremist’s claim of a valid “holy war”. First, the conflict involved is not from “within” but from “without” so as it is safe to say that their cause is not a war against one’s self. Second, assuming for the sake of argument that it is an external war, still it belies their reasoning for the reason that there has been no prohibition to their free exercise of Islam. Hence, all the bombings, suicide bombings, and all sorts of anti-social acts is not worthy to be associated nor attributed to the holy name of Islam.
“Jihad” therefore should be understood under Allah’s guiding grace and wisdom. Be it noted that all that God wants is to share the beauty of life through his peace and mercy negating “killing” of human life as the supreme prohibition. All raises believe in the same supernatural being. The only difference is we call him different names. But, the common thing is, religion is made as a guiding rod to steer ourselves to peace because Islam means “peace”. Asalamo alaikum…
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
GONE AHEAD OF ME
Sanfelli Marius Michael C. Hortelano
http.//shortelano.blogspot.com
“Children are supposed to be the ones to burry their parents.
Not the other way around.”
A father’s outcry has come to pour down his pain of loosing. With me, as his drinking spree partner, he lamented his sorrows amid severe melancholic sadness. Kristin, his one and only seventeen-year-old daughter, who is at the same time my godchild, was robbed, raped and murdered. Worse, justice seemed illusive in their reach. Not to tell, zero witnesses coupled with weak forensics add up the pile of frustrating flavor. In our place, there is no way that the evidence can speak. CSIs are everywhere but the obsoleteness of their schooling hinders the efficiency of their craft.
Bottle after bottle, his frustration poured on but no matter how hard he cries, there is no way that he could bring his daughter back. He sad: “Children are supposed to be the ones to burry their parents. Not the other way around.” He’s questioning the defiance of a supposed fixed chronological order of life. Simply put, the old die ahead of the young. Sour grapping is common for he is still in denial. The instinct of a father wishing that he could take his daughter’s shoes is purely evident but crying over spilled milk is useless. Acceptance may be far ahead but it is certain.
“She’s gone ahead of me. My angel is up their overshadowing me. It’s painful but yet normal for me to see my parents die and burry them. Everybody dies and it is my duty as their child to do it as a form of last respect. But to see my child die ahead of me defied the norms of life and nature. It’s just like saying that one plus one is equal to three or zero plus zero is equal to two. It’s just weird but death defies everything. Love your children while they are still there. Children, love your parents while you still can. Because if they’re gone, they’re gone.”
Tears dripping down his face while he was at the lector; an inspiring necrology indeed. He drew in closer watching the casket gone, he smiled, sighed and said…Thank you. Kristin, I’ll be home soon.
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“Children are supposed to be the ones to burry their parents.
Not the other way around.”
A father’s outcry has come to pour down his pain of loosing. With me, as his drinking spree partner, he lamented his sorrows amid severe melancholic sadness. Kristin, his one and only seventeen-year-old daughter, who is at the same time my godchild, was robbed, raped and murdered. Worse, justice seemed illusive in their reach. Not to tell, zero witnesses coupled with weak forensics add up the pile of frustrating flavor. In our place, there is no way that the evidence can speak. CSIs are everywhere but the obsoleteness of their schooling hinders the efficiency of their craft.
Bottle after bottle, his frustration poured on but no matter how hard he cries, there is no way that he could bring his daughter back. He sad: “Children are supposed to be the ones to burry their parents. Not the other way around.” He’s questioning the defiance of a supposed fixed chronological order of life. Simply put, the old die ahead of the young. Sour grapping is common for he is still in denial. The instinct of a father wishing that he could take his daughter’s shoes is purely evident but crying over spilled milk is useless. Acceptance may be far ahead but it is certain.
“She’s gone ahead of me. My angel is up their overshadowing me. It’s painful but yet normal for me to see my parents die and burry them. Everybody dies and it is my duty as their child to do it as a form of last respect. But to see my child die ahead of me defied the norms of life and nature. It’s just like saying that one plus one is equal to three or zero plus zero is equal to two. It’s just weird but death defies everything. Love your children while they are still there. Children, love your parents while you still can. Because if they’re gone, they’re gone.”
Tears dripping down his face while he was at the lector; an inspiring necrology indeed. He drew in closer watching the casket gone, he smiled, sighed and said…Thank you. Kristin, I’ll be home soon.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
AVATAR (Truth behind the Fantasy)
AVATAR
(Truth behind the Fantasy)
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It is of no doubt that James Cameron’s masterpiece has toppled the box office charts once again. It is as massive as his Titanic masterpiece that eventually proved its worth. Like its futuristic fantasy equivalent, Avatar is absolutely “off the hook”. A work of a
Figuratively speaking, beauty beyond the senses is the word; reading between the lines is the game; and, understanding the message of the concealed is our divine solitude. Crazy? Read on dude….
The movie for itself depicts the true strategy of colonialism as applied by well known conquerors. Let me show you how the they do it.
(1) Make the savages your friend – Certainly, the best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him a friend. Truly, the best way to penetrate the unknown is for you to be known in another form. And that is, your game face form.
(2) Teach them English – Educate. Rather than traditionally taking arms, teach them communication skills instead. Through communication, you can certainly wield your magic to it. Certainly, language is power and English is his beloved haven.
(3) Win their hearts, earn their trust – After pretending that you care through educating and civilizing the presumed uncivilized savages, trust and confidence is now won. With this arsenal, manipulation comes even harder at the expense of a weak emotional being blinded by the affection of a loveless intimacy.
(4) Execute the mission; unleash the true form – earning the TRUST of someone is the crucial part. However, once you have earned it, it is the key to control a person by even putting into application the slightest elementary manipulation. This is where the unleashing of the true form happens. Defenseless as they are helpless you are now free to exploit their resources and bounty to the satisfaction of your egoistic interests.
(5) Dump them after use – after completing everything to your satisfaction, dump them after use. Treat them as dirt.
To correlate the spice with reality, here’s my historical basis.
Going back through history, the same technique was applied in the Iraq siege. U.S. troops were deployed under the two Bush administrations. The propaganda was to liberate Iraq and forge a new democratic government. The intention was there and the affection was overwhelming. However, the hidden greed is the thirst for oil. To do it, the Bush regime literally put itself in stealth to deliberately violate Iraqi sovereignty by interfering an obvious municipal conflict. Needless to state, the Iraqi people were extremely glorified by the American heroism completely unaware of the massive truth hidden behind their angelic faces.
AVATAR shows us a complete description of deception forged by selfishness and greed. Most people are fascinated by the graphics, computer effects, story line and cinematography. These people are just dwelling in the shallows of the water. They failed to appreciate the hidden hieroglyphics behind the masterpiece.
Fiction isn’t it? Is it?
…decide.
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(Truth behind the Fantasy)
URL: http.//shortelano.blogspot.com
It is of no doubt that James Cameron’s masterpiece has toppled the box office charts once again. It is as massive as his Titanic masterpiece that eventually proved its worth. Like its futuristic fantasy equivalent, Avatar is absolutely “off the hook”. A work of a
Figuratively speaking, beauty beyond the senses is the word; reading between the lines is the game; and, understanding the message of the concealed is our divine solitude. Crazy? Read on dude….
The movie for itself depicts the true strategy of colonialism as applied by well known conquerors. Let me show you how the they do it.
(1) Make the savages your friend – Certainly, the best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him a friend. Truly, the best way to penetrate the unknown is for you to be known in another form. And that is, your game face form.
(2) Teach them English – Educate. Rather than traditionally taking arms, teach them communication skills instead. Through communication, you can certainly wield your magic to it. Certainly, language is power and English is his beloved haven.
(3) Win their hearts, earn their trust – After pretending that you care through educating and civilizing the presumed uncivilized savages, trust and confidence is now won. With this arsenal, manipulation comes even harder at the expense of a weak emotional being blinded by the affection of a loveless intimacy.
(4) Execute the mission; unleash the true form – earning the TRUST of someone is the crucial part. However, once you have earned it, it is the key to control a person by even putting into application the slightest elementary manipulation. This is where the unleashing of the true form happens. Defenseless as they are helpless you are now free to exploit their resources and bounty to the satisfaction of your egoistic interests.
(5) Dump them after use – after completing everything to your satisfaction, dump them after use. Treat them as dirt.
To correlate the spice with reality, here’s my historical basis.
Going back through history, the same technique was applied in the Iraq siege. U.S. troops were deployed under the two Bush administrations. The propaganda was to liberate Iraq and forge a new democratic government. The intention was there and the affection was overwhelming. However, the hidden greed is the thirst for oil. To do it, the Bush regime literally put itself in stealth to deliberately violate Iraqi sovereignty by interfering an obvious municipal conflict. Needless to state, the Iraqi people were extremely glorified by the American heroism completely unaware of the massive truth hidden behind their angelic faces.
AVATAR shows us a complete description of deception forged by selfishness and greed. Most people are fascinated by the graphics, computer effects, story line and cinematography. These people are just dwelling in the shallows of the water. They failed to appreciate the hidden hieroglyphics behind the masterpiece.
Fiction isn’t it? Is it?
…decide.
URL: http.//shortelano.blogspot.com
The Land of the Hopeless Hope
The Land of the Hopeless Hope
- Sanfelli Marius Michael C. Hortelano -
For the land of the free and the home of the braves…this was the legacy that Uncle Sam had instilled as it granted Juan dela Cruz’s freedom. An agreement fashioned under the glitters of a holy covenant that freedom will be granted if the Philippines is ready and committed to build a just and humane government. Stamped under American influence, our colonizers acceded to the proposition. And, as a result, gave the freedom that we deserve. Hence, we adapted American governance on the hope of forging a new civilized nation under a free and independent government; a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
With the new dawn of leadership at hand, the battle cry of our immortal heroes was finally put to rest. After centuries of assertion, freedom from implied bondage has finally come. Finally, the land of our forefathers is now the motherland of the free and the hope of the hopeless – for now, and for this moment, we are America’s protégée. Since the day the Americans settled for a graceful exit, a new light has beaconed which lifted an empty land into the ranks of melodious states and prosperous nations. From then on and onwards, our Philippines transcended as a promising nation conceived with the liberty of a promising future.
Suddenly, corrupted by greed and egoistic desires, our Philippines, has now been downgraded as a sour grapping government, living in a hopeless miniature. As the news busted out in public that the Philippines ranks second amongst MOST corrupt nations in Asia, many got hysterical. Well, instead of feeling humiliated, we should rise in exaltation for this rare distinction comes never in a lifetime. Thus, to shield off the ridicule, the Gloria administration insisted on charter change to ironically, set our contaminated nation in redemption. In reality, “chacha” is not the answer for even if we put in execution the Government of the Christ and mount our nation as the land of the New Jerusalem, nothing will change. Suffice it to say, no matter how ideal a government is, if those governing are infested with termite - like instincts, a strongly built edifice will surely and always fall. What should be resolved is the attitude of greed for power and money; the very essence which every royaled warthog wish to possess for eternity.
Worse, dominated by stupid electorates who crave for popularity rather than capacity, our motherland continues to loom near a definite downfall. Headed under the leadership of an incapacitated tyrant who feeds on the bounty of his office and beyond, doom is definitely coming. For, once more, a reincarnation of a familiar monster has risen to harness the same dread that the past has died for. What a pitiful weak. We tend to envy the recently concluded U.S. elections and were astonished in the Obama fever. Truly, what we envy the most is the sanctity of their democratic solace. For, for the first time, no protests were filed nor moans of fraud heard; it was sacred through out. Truly, it was not democracy but love of country that pave the peace all through out. The reason is that, Americans love America; but we, do not. Truly, if we would have chosen to stay under the rule of American suzerain, we would have enjoyed the same pride of a common race, of a common people living in a true free world. This is the true freedom.
“Blessed are the Crocodiles camouflaged in honorable prestige who steal under the shiny noon light, for theirs is the money of the people.” This is the paramount of all great beatitudes crafted by the dark lord himself intended for those who advocate the consecration of our country’s dehydration. Never have we seen the corrupt jailed nor have we seen the dishonest crucified. What is commonly and frequently seen are those criminals who get jailed for shoplifting a can of sardines, or caught stealing a bunch of coconuts to save his person from dying in hunger. Is this the price we bear for not being in power? Sadly to state, Patriotism has ceased to serenade the melody of our national theme. The tune “ang mamatay nang dahil sa ‘yo” is nothing but a mere defunct artwork, buried in oblivion, fashioned in a futile but iconic masterpiece which is reflective of the otherwise. The question is: Why do we steal from our own country? The answer is simple but we are just too dumb to grasp the conscience.
It seems that the pearl of the orient has ceased to weave its magic. It now roams as a misplaced pseudonym which suggests an ironic salutation. If only time can turn back its hand, it would have been better if we choose not to assert freedom. Better be an American colony and reap a well-loved government which can reciprocate the taxes we pay. Better be the fifty-first state and enjoy the grace of a proud nation than to be an independent State suffering the consequence of immature governance. It would have been better if we remain Americans and enjoy the best life possible than living in a hallucinated free nation ruled by gluttonous leaders whose devotion is to devour our sacred sweats. Truly, it is our own assertion of FREEDOM that has killed us and put the blood of our gallant heroes to shame. Hence, let this be the rule, if we had become prisoners of our own freedom, then let bondage be our pathway as freemen for there is freedom beyond the senses of bondage. The freedom enjoyed in solitary confinements. The freedom enjoyed amid closed cells and fortified asylums. The freedom reaped amidst colonialism.
- Sanfelli Marius Michael C. Hortelano -
For the land of the free and the home of the braves…this was the legacy that Uncle Sam had instilled as it granted Juan dela Cruz’s freedom. An agreement fashioned under the glitters of a holy covenant that freedom will be granted if the Philippines is ready and committed to build a just and humane government. Stamped under American influence, our colonizers acceded to the proposition. And, as a result, gave the freedom that we deserve. Hence, we adapted American governance on the hope of forging a new civilized nation under a free and independent government; a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
With the new dawn of leadership at hand, the battle cry of our immortal heroes was finally put to rest. After centuries of assertion, freedom from implied bondage has finally come. Finally, the land of our forefathers is now the motherland of the free and the hope of the hopeless – for now, and for this moment, we are America’s protégée. Since the day the Americans settled for a graceful exit, a new light has beaconed which lifted an empty land into the ranks of melodious states and prosperous nations. From then on and onwards, our Philippines transcended as a promising nation conceived with the liberty of a promising future.
Suddenly, corrupted by greed and egoistic desires, our Philippines, has now been downgraded as a sour grapping government, living in a hopeless miniature. As the news busted out in public that the Philippines ranks second amongst MOST corrupt nations in Asia, many got hysterical. Well, instead of feeling humiliated, we should rise in exaltation for this rare distinction comes never in a lifetime. Thus, to shield off the ridicule, the Gloria administration insisted on charter change to ironically, set our contaminated nation in redemption. In reality, “chacha” is not the answer for even if we put in execution the Government of the Christ and mount our nation as the land of the New Jerusalem, nothing will change. Suffice it to say, no matter how ideal a government is, if those governing are infested with termite - like instincts, a strongly built edifice will surely and always fall. What should be resolved is the attitude of greed for power and money; the very essence which every royaled warthog wish to possess for eternity.
Worse, dominated by stupid electorates who crave for popularity rather than capacity, our motherland continues to loom near a definite downfall. Headed under the leadership of an incapacitated tyrant who feeds on the bounty of his office and beyond, doom is definitely coming. For, once more, a reincarnation of a familiar monster has risen to harness the same dread that the past has died for. What a pitiful weak. We tend to envy the recently concluded U.S. elections and were astonished in the Obama fever. Truly, what we envy the most is the sanctity of their democratic solace. For, for the first time, no protests were filed nor moans of fraud heard; it was sacred through out. Truly, it was not democracy but love of country that pave the peace all through out. The reason is that, Americans love America; but we, do not. Truly, if we would have chosen to stay under the rule of American suzerain, we would have enjoyed the same pride of a common race, of a common people living in a true free world. This is the true freedom.
“Blessed are the Crocodiles camouflaged in honorable prestige who steal under the shiny noon light, for theirs is the money of the people.” This is the paramount of all great beatitudes crafted by the dark lord himself intended for those who advocate the consecration of our country’s dehydration. Never have we seen the corrupt jailed nor have we seen the dishonest crucified. What is commonly and frequently seen are those criminals who get jailed for shoplifting a can of sardines, or caught stealing a bunch of coconuts to save his person from dying in hunger. Is this the price we bear for not being in power? Sadly to state, Patriotism has ceased to serenade the melody of our national theme. The tune “ang mamatay nang dahil sa ‘yo” is nothing but a mere defunct artwork, buried in oblivion, fashioned in a futile but iconic masterpiece which is reflective of the otherwise. The question is: Why do we steal from our own country? The answer is simple but we are just too dumb to grasp the conscience.
It seems that the pearl of the orient has ceased to weave its magic. It now roams as a misplaced pseudonym which suggests an ironic salutation. If only time can turn back its hand, it would have been better if we choose not to assert freedom. Better be an American colony and reap a well-loved government which can reciprocate the taxes we pay. Better be the fifty-first state and enjoy the grace of a proud nation than to be an independent State suffering the consequence of immature governance. It would have been better if we remain Americans and enjoy the best life possible than living in a hallucinated free nation ruled by gluttonous leaders whose devotion is to devour our sacred sweats. Truly, it is our own assertion of FREEDOM that has killed us and put the blood of our gallant heroes to shame. Hence, let this be the rule, if we had become prisoners of our own freedom, then let bondage be our pathway as freemen for there is freedom beyond the senses of bondage. The freedom enjoyed in solitary confinements. The freedom enjoyed amid closed cells and fortified asylums. The freedom reaped amidst colonialism.
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