16: Belief Systems
Drinking the Kool-Aid
By PAIGE OCCEÑOLA DISCUSSED: roomfuls of robots, conversion, God vs Fags I’ve recently taken to calling myself a theist. This is a far cry from when I considered myself a hardcore Roman Catholic. Looking back on those days I guess I was just trying hard to be something I really wasn’t. I had issues with [...]
Golden Rules: So Easy, a Child Could Do Them
By REGINA LAYUG-ROSERO DISCUSSED: How the world really should be a better place Fast times for fast food I walk down the street, past the McDonald’s with its drive-through lane, and there’s a little island between the arrows that mark the entrance and the exit. As I walk, groceries in hand, a Benz tries to [...]
Principles of Flight
By LJ SULIT DISCUSSED: The notion of soulmates, and why believing in them goes against common sense It was set to be the last fragment of this semi-requited love affair; the final straw of drunken kisses, sober platonism, and the undefinition of their overlapping; the ultimate confirmation of non-affection felt via unanswered calls, and the [...]
Saints, Skeptics, and Sinners
I’ve got your holy week playlist right here Hi! Are you tired of spending holy week repenting for all the unholy weeks you’ve spent listening to Akon? Do you equate “doing penance” with listening (guilt free!) to the contents of the record store shelves labeled “Christian”? Do you find genuine catharsis in a Creed song? [...]
Why I No Need Angry
By BONG STA. MARIA DISCUSSED: dodging spiritual awakening March 10, 2011: Sivagiri Nagababa gave me a six-faced rudraksha in Pashupatinath, Shiva’s temple in Kathmandu. This was the morning after I witnessed a bloody motorcycle accident on my way to Bhaktapur. First night. I can’t hold a chillum to save my goddamn life, so baba held [...]
Fuzzy Logic or, Excerpts from the Hysteric’s Anecdotal Encyclopedia
By P. RAFAEL MERCADO 1. A note on cross-reference: Terms in SMALL CAPS have entries of their own, to which one may confer. 2. The word panaorios occurs only once in the Iliad: It is GREEK for untimeliness, which is at the axis of kairos in the two axes of Greek time, which are chronos [...]
A Matter of Seeing and Not Seeing
By ALICE SARMIENTO BIG TALK!: faith vs. religion, knowledge vs. belief, quantum physics, light Elephants feel the fatal footfalls of poachers a hundred miles off. On Sunday mornings, you won’t find me in church but at the coffee shop outside church, trying to work as the Bible study group beside me proclaims their joy at [...]
The Menu
When I Get Married, We Will Eat My Heart Out By LIZ LONGBOURN DISCUSSED: How I thought I had a type, but apparently I don’t. Dear Significant Other, Submitted for your approval, our fantasy wedding menu. Sincerely, Your Favorite P.S. I want a 25-foot-tall inflatable slide for the fantasy wedding. Our flower girls will forever [...]
Fall in Love
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