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Thursday, 02 February 2006

  • Talk about misunderstood...

    I probably am one of the most damn misunderstood people that I know... for that G*d dammit!!! Here are some of the labels that I have, through injustice, gained.

    1.) Agnostic or atheist - so here we are in theology class and my professor is talking about St. Thomas and arguing (nay, telling) us that nothing evil can come from God. But here's the contradiction: nothing evil comes from God because there is no evil, evil is simply the absence of good. Evil can only come from the acts of men, but God can make us see the good even at the direst situation. Fine so here I began to think, if God can use evil to make us see the good, why can't He have some hand at it? I'm not saying that God is evil but I believe that through the misfortunes in life we can learn. So I told him, "Sir, there seems to be something lacking in St. Thomas' argument. If there is a good end in whatever means, can't you say that somehow that evil (means) has a use for that good end? Therefore, can't God have a hand in that?" So here he repeats that no evil can come from God... no point arguing.. and he says that since evil is a no-thing because it is only the lack of good, God as a Creator cannot make it... so I said, "Sir, aren't commission (doing something) and omission both acts? So in that way they both are actual actions." He repeats his argument, and seeing that we're going nowhere I asked simply, "Okay, sir, since we have to assume this character of God, in relation to other religions, can you say that this belief is based only on Christian faith?" Here his eyes go wide and tells me, "I'm not simply saying this because of Christian faith, it's based on rationality." Okay end of story, I asked no further, and then before I sat he said, "I thank you for asking that, and I respect whatever it is that you believe in or your religion." What?!, I wanted to say, I'm Catholic but am I not supposed to ask anything about what I believe in being still a Catholic?  So I told him I was Catholic and just wanted to ask. So here my tag: Agnostic or Atheist.
    2) One-track political mind - My professor in Philosophy Ice Pasco is the main antagonist here, I owe him this journal entry. We have a project for philosophy regarding media, I'm a political science student, so there at our group consultation inside our classroom my groupmates from other courses would say nothing about what we're supposed to do. Fishing for topics, I suggested that people are molded in believing that this or that is what they should vote for through commercials and flashy advertisements. They having nothing to say much at that point and agreed. But here's the dismaying part, we said nothing of it to our professor. During our actual consultation with him, we told him nothing besides the fact that we're doing a report on media sensationalism. Nothing else. He asked, "What's your topic." We said, "media sensationalism." So he goes on and on about what we should do. And then here's my simple question, this and nothing else, "Sir, are we only supposed to focus on news?" At this he retorts, "You shouldn't make this a political science project! You aren't supposed to focus on Gloria or FPJ or blah blah blah..." Okay, I'm so frickin' dismayed at his stereotyping but for the sake of not wasting my group's time for consultation I kept quiet. After he goes on again I ask, simply, "Sir, can we focus on one topic?" I asked this, thinking if it would be alright to focus on one effect that media has on people. And here he retorts again, "You shouldn't sensationalize it! This is a philosophical project, you shouldn't just go talking about politics... blah blah blah..." What the hell?! I wanted to say, I told him not a single word about politics and here he batters me again and again for wanting to make a project about politics. What the hell? Here you are lecturing about the objectification and stereotyping of people and here I am asking nothing but, "Are we only supposed to focus on news?" with the knowledge that for crying out loud, news is not the only medium of there (this is already redundant because of the fact that media is about mediums of information!) there are books, journals, magazines, commercials... all those stuff out there and here he tells me not to make a political project. "Sir, we didn't say we're going to make one!" this is what I wanted to say. Label: One-track Political Mind
    3) Communist - this I owe, once more, to the very same philosophy professor that I begin to wonder why the hell do I even bother to speak with him even in lectures. He lectures about people objectifying other people, and then makes examples of receptionists being indifferent to patients that would look like they're about to die and all that. Fine I get the point, the first story on I already get the point and he makes more examples, going on and on about your job, your social role, hindering you from responding to another person humanely to keep your job's guises. So I thought about Plato's point in the Republic, "Justice is fulfilling your role in society." So I told him about it and told him that it was related to the lesson somehow. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that it's what he's been blabbering about, if you're expected to act courteously because you're a professor in a respectable school, for example (and this is one of his examples), then justice (doing the right thing) is doing what you are expected to do given that role. How damn simple can it be? And here he tells me, "But what you're saying is related to Communism we can't touch that topic here." So I told him, "Sir, it's related to what you're saying about institutions." But then... what's the point in explaining, as if I never learned from our first encounter. I don't see his point about complaining about students who never think in his classes if he can't understand or even try to understand something that a student has thought about. Label: Communist + One-track political mind.
    4) Lesbian - okay, I'm not the girliest-girl you'll find out there, but I'm simply not gay. So here's the story about it. My classmate asked me if I had a crush on anyone in class, and, being true to myself I told him, "No." So he asks me, "Okay, do you find anyone here at least good-looking?" So I told him that I found someone in class good-looking, that's all. From that point on he keeps on TELLING everyone that I had a crush on that guy, he tells everyone we meet, he introduces me to people (just anyone) and tells them that I have a crush on that guy. So here, just so he'll stop and that I can save some of my sanity and dignity I told him jokingly, "Okay, Mookie, stop it, I don't have a crush on Mark, we (by that I meant Mookie and I) both like girls." So there's the joke and I, never learning well enough, suffered from that moment on with him instead of telling everyone that I had a crush on that guy tells them instead that I'm a lesbian. Label: Lesbian.
    5) Pervert - one day I had to attend a organization meeting for an event that I wanted to participate in. I, having joined no organization in our university, sat there at the only organization meeting that I would have in my entire college career. My mom had let me borrow her phone because mine ran out of battery so that she can call me afterwards. So there I sit, innocently, and then, not being used to that phone, and so I forgot to put it on silent, suddenly heard the message alert tone ringing at the highest volume, "Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina." Thank you so much for Kindergarten Cop for making that line known. Hell... what did I do to deserve this at a meeting of our university's law organization? Label : Pervert
    6) Sick and Sadistic - we were supposed to make a skit for our Japanese class and seeing that no one else in our group would make the script I made it. Wanting to add some humor I made a comedy about Santa, an Innocent Boy, and Chucky (the gift the child would have since he asked Santa for an exciting friend). Well, I did it, it is rather sick I must admit, but here's the clincher. As we walked out of class I joined a classmate and our professor. At the course of our conversation my professor asked me, "So, Peb, you were the one who made the skit right?" So I told her that I did, and then after some thought, I asked her what made her realize that I did it. She told me, "Well, you know Karl...hmm, he isn't the type who would do it, and Niño, hmm you know, not so. But you, well probably." I laughed and since it was a light conversation I said, "I'll just take that as a compliment ma'am... so you're saying that I'm the type who would make a story like that?" "Well, yes," she said and then fishing for words said "It's kind of well, interesting and well... sick." I have nothing against her, it's funny and it's the best stereotype among the six I mentioned, but well it's still quite strange after all. Label: Sick and Sadistic

    These are the only scenarios that I can remember occuring in our university, I wouldn't want to mention things that happen in my everyday existence any longer. I'm already pissed off as it is. What did I ever do? Karma for what? I'd like to ask, or maybe just like what my theology professor had said, "Evil can only come from the acts of men." So there you are, evil evil people.

  • Memories are food for maggots...

    I dreamt a dream last night,
    It was so clear that it made me wonder
    why it was so vague

Wednesday, 21 December 2005

Monday, 19 December 2005

  • messed up O_o! but quite happy

    Missing old friends, relishing new ones but still caught in between the flashing light bulb of my sociability. What's to do and to believe, anyway, perhaps this is because I'm eating too much sweets again, the sugar is messing up my senses (and leaving none of its common and substantial parts behind) ! hanasanaide kudasai!

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