The Cause of Unconscious Anger

Anger is often times manifested as a form of rage, an attempt of revenge to a party in which have inflicted harm or insult to a person.  I am having problems recently on how to effectively manage my anger, I have been very irritable lately, and I tend to vent out my frustrations to my younger brother and to some of my loved ones.  Today, somehow I have come to the point of ultimate self guilt and have tried to understand why have I been too irritable lately.

According to the famous French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, anger or aggression for that matter came as a result of man’s defense against “threats of fragmentation”.  Simply put, Lacan perceives that man is basically just an aggregate of biological processes, and in its very essence gives him no authority whatsoever.  The attempt to create an identity as one grows older and at the same time protect this identity causes one aggression whenever he felt threatened through feelings of vulnerability and weakness.  Anger or aggression according to Lacan is a sort of illusion that man pose to himself that he indeed posses some sort of power.

I have come across to the website of Dr. Raymond Lloyd Richmond, an American psychology expert, in which he discusses with great depth the nature of human anger.  According to Dr. Richmond, anger is basically the natural human response to getting hurt.

Abortion- Philippine Style

In the Philippines, abortion is synonymous to murder.  In a country where the Catholic Church is more powerful than the concept of god, Filipinas who want to undergo abortion have to first pass a very excruciating process of self-guilt, self-condemnation; after which possible rupture of the cervix, infection, drug overdose or even death could occur.  Abortionists in the Philippines are seen as evil, immorals, uneducated, cunning, and very much unfit to perform of shall I say, an induced delivery through the use of various drugs and other tools.

Abortionists in the country are often referred by herbal vendors along the Quiapo church.  Typical charges for abortion in the country ranges from 5,000 PhP ($113.00) up to 30,000 PhP ($681.00) depending on the age of the fetus.  Transactions are often done behind the walls of almost dilapidated concrete establishments within the city, as the vendors are well aware of the danger of the transaction if caught by the police.  After the agreement is done,  the most typical meeting place is Monumento, after which, it is already up to the guide where will the woman be brought for the process.

The Role of Computer Media Mediated Communication on the Promotion of Atheism

This is an excerpt from my Master’s Degree thesis. I just wanted to share a portion with you guys.

The role of computer media mediated communication (CMC) or communication through the use of blogs, social networking sites, video sharing websites, podcasts, groups, chats and forums have enabled Filipino atheists to have a more convenient way of learning more about atheism, and test their stand and beliefs relative to one group or another.
According to Holt (2004), through CMC, primarily with the use of web pages/sites, people can express their ideology and have various people read them. These circumstances reveal the traces of civic life that reflect the ideology of composers of web pages/sites, as well as how designers see visitors who read these pages/sites (p.129).
Since the creation of web pages/sites is becoming easier, owing to the increasing availability of resources through the increasing technological, sophistication, availability and capability of computers, the creation of web pages or blogs has already become like a common commodity (Holt, 2004, p.130). The internet has been useful not only in propagating ideological messages, but also through embedding more than simply texts but also such permit users to attach graphic material and sound files, change size or color of font and the like. The skillful designer of sites is able to lead visitors through numerous presentations of information via a unique conceptual path (Horton, 2000; Siegel, 1997 as cited from Holt, 2004, p.132), which is impossible within the confines of other forms of media.

The Cycle of Life

I have been thinking recently, the cycle of life- being born, growing up, studying, working, marrying, and then eventually having children, getting old, and then dying.  Existentialists often say, that the meaning of man’s life resides in his/her experience, and how he or she creates his or her own subjective reality.  Existentialists often do not subscribe to the idea of god, and so, the ultimate happiness could only be achieved through the virtue of one’s will.  On the other hand, theists believe that the meaning of one’s life is knowing the purpose that god has created for man, living life in accordance to his will and eventually being rewarded in heaven when a man dies.

Obviously, I do not subscribe to the latter, and the former, I am starting to doubt its utility, really.  The something that is “in-between” the cycle of life, and that is meaning and eudaimonia is nothing but the illusion of the physical self and its complex brain process.  Some would surely contest this perception, as a lot of people view life, nature, knowledge, love, humanity as enough source of meaning and if not happiness, contentment. I would say that perhaps, the point of the continuance of life, is embedded in the biological, cognitive and psychological state of every being, as of course who would want his or herself cease to be?

Tolerance and Respect Revisited

Without relying on religion, we look to common sense, common experience and the findings of science and understanding.

The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso

Why Abortion is a Virtue

I think you are very sick and need help if you think murdering innocent babies that CAN AND DO feel what they are put through during abortion…especially 3rd term. You need to educate yourself a little more before you encourage these things. I haven’t seen a sight as sad and devastating as yours ever in my life. You are the most disturbed individual that I have heard of in my life. God will deal with you one day, but I just have one question…AREN’T YOU GLAD YOUR MOTHER DIDN’T ABORT YOU??? According to you, maybe she should have. I’ll bet you make her proud. Your picture is disgusting…that is a life in there. You should google abortion and take a look at some of those innocent babies murdered, tortured, and burned by abortion. Thanks.

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For some reasons, this May must have been the “abortion month on the web”; or whichever way cyber- people want to put it. A number of searches on abortion have been directed on this blog, together with people whom for some reasons still spend time arguing about their theistic arguments stating why abortion for them is simply not right. The thing is, people, if you are going to read this blog and whine how much your god together with your moral package have been offended, please do it elsewhere because there is simply no way that I would ever have to argue with you and your comments because they are simply not within my epistemological framework. The thing is, your arguments and my arguments are incommensurable since they are coming from two different sources, and from there, there is simply no sense for me replying to your thoughts.

To put it simple, lets say you have the Bible, and what I have is Utilitarianism as a moral foundation. Get it?

Why I am pro-choice? Why I wanted to terminate a “life”?

Why I am an abortion doctor- Garson Romalis

‘I can take a woman, in the biggest trouble she has ever experienced in her life, and by performing a five-minute operation, in comfort and dignity, I can give her back her life’

The following is the remarks delivered by Canadian Doctor, Garson Romalis on Jan. 25, at the University of Toronto Law School’s Symposium to Mark the 20th Anniversary of R. vs. Morgentaler published on The National Post, February 04, 2008.

This article inspired me. I hope the same goes to other Filipinas.

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I am honoured to be speaking today, and honored to call Henry Morgentaler my friend.

I have been an abortion provider since 1972. Why do I do abortions, and why do I continue to do abortions, despite two murder attempts?

The first time I started to think about abortion was in 1960, when I was in secondyear medical school. I was assigned the case of a young woman who had died of a septic abortion. She had aborted herself using slippery elm bark.

Your Grand Mom was a Feminist? Way Too Cool… Not

What does it mean to be a Filipina and an Atheist all at the same time? I guess there are very few women who would want to ask this question. The problem of the argument of some theists in terms of the justification of women’s role in the Bible as something that is “very vital” to serve a greater purpose for me appears to be a pure language game. Looking on how women are treated and viewed during the old times is simply obvious- serve your god, follow your husband, be an accessory for the sake of attaining a the perfect plan of the supreme creator.

Honestly, I don’t really fancy justifying (my) feminism and providing a universal definition that would fit the subjective realities of men, women, and other institutions there is. For me, my “dominance” in this “world” is relative on how I view it, and such provides utility in terms of how I can create my own meaning independent of the conventions of the Filipino faith, independent of our social norms, independent of the usual linguistic connotations that the society wish to define a Filipina. Fact is, every form of “justified belief” anchoring on virtue of epistemology is a form of knowledge, and being the case every form of knowledge has the right to be respected. The problem though on our usual definitions of a Filipina creates a form of reality which as a whole does not really maximizes the utility that we can give to our selves and the society as a whole. Perhaps this argument could be very utilitarian as some might want to point out, but truth is this is what is happening. Filipinas no matter how they think how liberated, educated and empowered they are still unconsciously succumb to the frameworks that she have been accustomed to since birth.

The Day When I Was Burned at Stake

Psychological freaks, Satanists, Anti-Christs, Impoverished, Nincompoops- just a few of the words that my thesis panel tagged to my thesis. I just had my defense on March 31 and all I can say that its one heck of an experience. I felt that I was transported back to the Medieval times, when witches were hunted and burned to death. Where naturalists and inventors were seen as pagans- I was there standing as if I am one with them, ready to be stoned to death and be cursed as Wiiiiitttcccchhhhhhh!

The old ladies- or rather shall I call the doctors in my field of expertise stared aghast as if I am a demon speaking from the depths of hell.

“I don’t see the relevance of your thesis actually, I just cant”

One of the human like forms having the vital statistics of a blue whale wearing a purple cloth nonchalantly told me. I was about to chant my spells to repair her brain neurons so that she can comprehend what I am saying, but out of the blue, another human life form this time imitating the vital statistics of Big Bear wearing Little Red Riding Hood’s dress blurted…

“Tell me, are you an atheist?” So I was like zipped right straight in- never mind the blue whale in the purple cloth, Big Bear is mocking me, I will tell her straight to the face that I am an atheist, so ? What’s the big fuss? Nanoseconds… transpiring like the speed of light- my lips opened as fast as it could- but dumdumdumdum…

“She’s not an atheist” Okay now, seriously, is this my defense or what? My ever loving adviser whom I dare not insult in this blog for the fear of being shot straight in the head shall I say saved my ass from the possible commotion that may arise.

Yeah, its pretty obvious right- to tell this in uhmmm more politically correct manner- my panelists and I, don’t share the same language game.

WikiPilipinas Filipina Writing Stories

I wanted to thank Filipina Images, WikiPilipinas, Filipina.Net, Vibal Publishing, National Comission for the Role of Women and UP Center for Women’s Study for awarding me the third prize for my entry “The Cyber Feminization of Poverty : Mail Order Brides and the Image of the Filipina“

I was not able to attend the event though because I was in my Master’s thesis defense. The event was held at SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia which was entitled Women Can’t Wait. The event was done in relation with the celebration of World’s Women’s Month.

Congratulations to all those who won and those who participated in the event.  This is truly an endeavor that can significantly contribute in terms of celebrating and empowering the Filipina.