The Mosque of Muhammad’s Night Journey
Whenever Mohammed was confronted by throngs of unbelievers who doubt his prophetic claims, he would say that he was just sent to warn the people and not to perform miracles. There were even times that he would ask the provocateurs to wait and yet nothing ever happens. One can’t blame the Jews and Christians especially in Yathrib (Medina) because they knew the fact that real prophets can really perform miracles as recorded in their writings and oral traditions.
In Quest of the Doppelganger: An Inquest
“The worst form of inequality is to make unequal things equal.”
-Aristotle
I am not a political scientist, I am just a lowly philosopher where faculty is minding my own. But recently, I read Ryszard Legarko’s “The Demon of Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies” and suddenly I am spooked about two ideologies that seemingly are poles apart when I realized he was right in his analysis. A totalitarian regime like a communist state and a liberal regime like what we find in free societies have the same goal: perfect man and perfect society: men can be the best they are if they are given equality, or are treated as equals. In communism, friends, foe or family are all fellow citizens. That’s the spirit of brotherhood (fraternity) which operates in both political systems.
Warning in 5G
In the IT parlance, 5G or fifth generation communication technology in the fastest and most modern means. It is what we needed today not for the sake of the world wide web and its modernistic features or for any caprice or dominion of a super developed country. However, this is not the reason why we need it, actually even a 3G feature will suffice, for what must be conveyed, or the content is what is most relevant to our need. It is the message that is loud and clear, the warning in 3G.
The Janus Principle
Anyone familiar with the two-faced god from Greek mythology knows the application of a new beginning, say in the new year. This is why the start of the year is the month of January, from the name of the god, Janus.
The Logic of Garabandal
I am no theologian, what shall I say? I’m just a layman whose interest in philosophy, and especially the logic of things makes me some sort of a reformer. Of course I would like to see changes but they better be for the good and not for anything worse. This is why when I learned about the Garabandal I saw the changes in the Church in a new light. I began to think about the logic of the changes brought by Vatican II in the context of what has happened in Garabandal and everything that is still to happen.
On Being Transhuman or Transable
At the first glance, especially when we were younger, the TV cartoons and comics serials were depicting non-harmful elements into children’s perception. Then some adults started observing seemingly violent behavior among children when they started imitating superheroes and their antagonists and yes robots who do not experience pain.
On Being Able
We’re diverse beings indeed and are given different abilities. Educators know this specially those in the field of education. And some can hear little and some couldn’t hear at all. And teachers of the deaf know this very well. And yet even the deaf can learn and re-learn for as long as they can read the signs and gestures if they listen with their hearts. For listening is what determines true hearing and healing and this is what is meant by “faith comes by hearing.”
His Real Presence in the Eucharist
It would seem that miracles wrought by God concerning the Eucharist is wrath expressed in the violation of His Real Presence and His Holiness.
Subverting The Priesthood
It seems that priesthood in the Catholic church continues to be subverted.
Where is Love?
It seems that for someone who is attracted to Islam there is a need to defer conversion.
Truth Inconvenienced
The die in cast. Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin. The handwriting is on the wall and the cryptic graffiti is warning us about the new world order that is coming. First there was the sad truth about a boy being arrested because he spoke the truth that there are only two sexes: the male and the female. Then there was the inconvenient ban on the use of urinals. Then we have now a speaker being arrested for exposing a great philanthropist who he said is actually pushing for the gay agenda. A long time ago, an American politician, former Vice-President Al Gore spoke on how we must urgently try to save our planet through his widely-acclaimed “The Inconvenient Truth”.
The Cain Identity
The Cain Identity refers to person who is chosen from questionable selection process, especially because there are no more candidates available for recruitment by lowering the norms or standards of selection which we in turn call the Cain principle.