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    When, in a drinking session, someone suddenly tells you, “your naivete is what I love the most about you” it makes you stop and think. Especially when you’ve been, of late, trying to pass yourself off to those who don’t know better as a world-wise twenty-something sophisticate, right at home in a generation that thinks cynicism is chic. So I’m naïve. I believe in being part of a struggle much bigger than yourself; daring to reach for a heaven far beyond your grasp; doing your part to assuage wounds wrought by many lifetimes of strife and knowing that it will take double that number of lifetimes to completely heal. I can look every bully in the eye and I know I will not flinch. Very few things threaten me – probably more the result of the brashness of youth than the wisdom of years. I think the best kind of job is not the job that gets you a fat paycheck or gives you generous car plan. It’s the job that makes you sleep well at night and eager to get up the next day. I love knowing that I’m working with the good guys – and drinking with them later at night. I believe that the fire in my belly can quell the butterflies in my tummy, and that my phantoms are no match for my passions. I maintain that the Left is right (but also that social justice is impossible without procedural due process). I believe in love, purely and utterly: insisting on it, finding it, keeping it, allowing yourself to be swept off your feet by the violence of its current but at the same time rocked to gentle sleep in the constancy of its embrace. I believe in the certainty and constancy of my friendships. I believe I’m fabulous and beautiful, and if you don’t agree with me, that’s because you’re wrong. I would say I believe in a Higher Being that holds everything together, and allows us to find that glint of light amidst hunger and cancer and injustice and oppression —- But then, that’s not naivete anymore. That’s faith.

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Archive for February 18th, 2007

Amendments

Posted by Jae on February 18, 2007

In college, I always believed that  “if it’s not mad passionate love, it’s not worth it.”

Today, I’m amending it to: “if it’s not safe and secure and doesnt allow you to rest your head at the end of the day when the universe conspires against you, it’s not worth it.”

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Religion Gone Mad

Posted by Jae on February 18, 2007

Some idiot posted this on our gate yesterday morning:

BABALA:

Ayon sa salita ng Diyos, ang sinumang patuloy na nakikisama sa hindi nya tunay na asawa, sa kapwa lalaki o maging sa kapwa babae, ay siguradong mapapasa-apoy ng impiyerno.

 

My mom and I checked our neighbors’ gates, wala naman nakapaskil. Sa amin lang talaga. Yet another example of religion gone mad.

If one is to see religion as the path towards salvation or eternal life and the teaching of goodness and virtue, it is difficult to understand how this could possibly have anything to do with fanaticism, repression and oppression of traditionally-marginalized groups like homosexuals. History is replete with examples of wanton and wholesale violations of human rights on account of religious ideology, from the burning of women at the stake for allegedly being witches to the curtailment of women’s civil liberties under Islamic law to Hindu bride-burning to female circumcision. What gives? Why the consistent pattern of subjugation in the great religions of the world that do not intersect and in some cases are antagonistic with each other?

I suppose institutional religion is about social order and its maintenance – the regulation of behavior, the setting up of a rigid moral code with which to measure deviation from the established norm — and a traditionally-structured social order will in great likelihood be consistent with the patriarchal model that defines man as the standard against which everything is measured. This kind of set-up quells emergent and alternative voices because these voices threaten the premises on which this set-up is built.

To the small-minded coward who left the sign in our house: Take your bigotry and vandalism elsewhere.

 

 

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