Archive for December, 2007
Four Sides Do Not a Square Make
There are many forms of the ontological argument, most so apparently mistaken that to comment on them extensively would be a waste of time. But a remarkably clear headed philosopher named Norman Malcolm, restated and expanded a portion of Anselm’s argument so that it is almost an entirely new one, and it deserves some note. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Disproving Anselm
Note: the following is an analysis of one of the most convoluted philosophical propositions of all time. I have untangled it considerably (after reading the relevant chapters, sited and not sited, some commentaries and expansions five times or more), I have discarded the extraneous bits and the patently nonsensical, and I have left the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Idiot
The article I’m about to share with you comes from the Inquirer. Now if you’ve been reading the newspapers you may have noticed how simperingly conservative Star is and how inflammatory and anti-administration the Inquirer is. At first I thought this was a reporter breaking ranks, making a very subtle joke about how the media [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Jose C. Sison’s Wrong Move
In the Opinion columns of the December 3 issue of the Philippine Star, Joce C. Sison wrote in his syndicated column, ‘A Law Each Day (keeps the trouble away)’,
“History shows that successful people power revolutions are always spontaneous and unplanned. Hence the failure [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Assassination kicks ass
Governments are a lot like old style mafias. Like mafias, governments collect money from people in exchange for services and protection (protection from themselves), they use guns and other forms of pressure to ensure people’s cooperation, they take control of the police force in order to achieve immunity from the law. You object, the mafia [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I Love It Here
The government has recently passed into law the “Human Security Act”. In the second section of this law there is a promise that during its implementation the “State shall uphold the basic rights and fundamental liberties of the people as enshrined in the constitution”. Now what I love most about our country is the healthy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gawad Kalinga for President
If I could, there are a few things I would like to change about GK. It talks too much about patriotism and faith, for example. But what they have shown is that those two things are not deal breakers for them. Gawad Kalinga—an arm of the Catholic lay group, Couples for Christ—builds communities even in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )What I think we should do
I think we should redirect all government funds apart from the upkeep required to run the government’s bureaucracy into roads, residential developments (especially sanitation) for the poor, public health care (including reproductive health), sewage waste and water treatment, and food production. Private companies can bid for contracts, although it will be necessary to subsidize much [...]
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