Spoliarium

There are a lot of things we all want. Some of these are people, items, even abilities that are impossible to acquire. I, myself, have this list of these things. It’s quite a long list, and most of its contents are.. outrageous. These are currently (September 27, 2007. 11:08pm) what I have on the list.

1. I want to fly — ever since I was a kid I’d dream (literally) of flying high up in the sky. The thought of it started in grade school, when I thought waking up early in the morning just to catch the school bus is very inconvenient; And flying would just take me seconds to get to school from my house
2. I also want pyrokinesis — When I first saw Pyro in the Xmen movie, I fell in love with Pyrokinesis. How they depicted this ability in teh movie was very impressive, that it looked like it was so powerful, so devastating, full of emotion (ie. anger). I used to think that water was my element, with my now-dead love for swimming, and my wonderment how fun it is altering the water spray gushing out of a hose.
3. And when I get that pyrokinesis, I’ll burn down a church — To hell with Xtianity. And with
   pyrokinesis, I could make it one step more literally.
4. Speaking of churches, there are other thing I’d like to do in a church.. Liek drink (alcohol in one. Or celebrate mass drunk. Or drink and get drunk while celebrating mass — I used to think that mass as boring. Now that I’m an atheist (and with my family now not celebrating mass regularly), every trip to the church is a very special thing, especially when the homily come’s up. I keep smiling and laughing to myself, knowing how to kill whatever comes out of the priest’s mouth. I got this idea from one of my atheist bestfriends, Allen. He, on the other han, wants to have sex in a church.. on the altar. I’m not sure if he would want anyone to see that. I’d like to do that to, if the opportunity comes up.
5. One day, I’ll rule the world — This the plan the Imperial Concordium (Allen, Martin, I, Bert?, Billie) is plotting. Everyone else is very qualified. I’m not sure about myself, though. I’ll try my best.
6. One day, I’ll learn how to paint the future. — Ever since I’ve seen my first Heroes Episode, and being a serious artist myself, I have admired and constantly wished for the ability to paint the future. I have also formulated a theory for this: learn how to paint the past, then the present, and the ability of painting the future will just come to you. The theory is more of mastering Inductive Reasoning, rather than actually predicting the future, I think.
7. One day, I’ll pull of Lichtenstein, and paint panels from comic strips/graphic novels. My first painting would be about this one. This picture also explains why I love the Batman:
   
8. One day, I’ll do a mural on the streets of the metro. — I have learned to seriously love graffiti and pop art ever since I stumbled to this site last summer (about March/April 2007). From them on, I decided that this would be my style, my forte.
9. One day, i’ll jam with Rivermaya, preferrably with the song, Elesi — Elesi is my dream jam song. It’s just so happy, upbeat and flexible. I like this particular version, especially. Please take the time to check it out.

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I’m running out of time. I will update this when other desires occur to me.

This entry is an edited and reproduced from my archives. I have removed all the unnecessary profanity in an attempt to. . stay professional. I have left some of them, to retain the humor. I hope you like that better.

To give you a context of the motivation I had for this entry: I have this professor who was telling stories about accidents and how they are proof of God’s power. Which god, you ask? I think It was the Christian God.

Original link: Click

Hope you don’t fall for this kind of shit.

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Post Hoc

Coming from the Latin phrase “Post hoc, ergo, propter hoc” which literally means “After this, therefore, because of this.” In this fallacy, one concludes that an event X, which happens before event Y, causes event Y. In easier terms:

Premise 1 - X happens
Premise 2 -Y happens after X
Conclusion - X causes Y

I’ll try to apply it in real life:

I’ll introduce you to my HS classmate Bert. Bert is known to be a very annoying and noisy person. Suppose we take him to a class picnic which, of course, is held outdoors, somewhere liek teh garden or field. The picnic starts. And just when Bert has just arrived, it rains. We therefore conclude that Bert has caused the rain. And we’ve never told him about our class picnics, or any other class outing for that matter since then.

Although this is very hypothetical (any similarities to Bert’s attributes, if ever he reminds you of anyone, is completely coincidental XD), This is a very sensible, probable turn of events in real life. It is an easy mistake to conclude that Bert’s arrival caused the rain, and the picnic’s doom, but obviously, we have no evidence to suppose that there is a casual connection between them two events.

Let’s discuss two more familiar, religious (and, in turn, amusing) examples, shall we?

Note: the following examples are rewritten, rehashed, for the entry’s..length advantage.

** Familiar, Religious, and Amusing Example 1: (Now, although, details liek teh names were different, my professor really used these plots as his proof of God’s power. And I can tell from the way he narrated this story, and the the look on his face, he was dead serious about it — which cracks me up.)

Think of a wimman’s name. Let’s say.. Anna. XD (Any more similarities to Anna’s characteristics, if ever she reminds you of anyone, is again completely coincidental. XD)

Anna is very outgoing. She goes to parties twice a week, at the least.

One night, when she’s about to go to a party, her mom was somewhat feeling uneasy, liek something bad is going to happen. As Anna’s friends drive by, mom tells her “May God (I think it’s Jesus, but it doesn’t matter) be with you.” Anna, being a very, very naughty party girl, replies with something liek “Car’s full. Maybe he can ride in the trunk. *smiley*”

Later that night, mom watches news, sees that the car that is supposed to transport her daughter (lol) is involved in a car crash. Everyone in the car is dead. The car was. what words did he use? Yuping-yupi, is it? That particualr car was totally.. totalled, except for — you guessed it — the trunk. The car’s ass looked liek it wasn’t even touched. :O

What does that prove? WHAT ELSE?? God/Jesus was riding with teh homies! *party emoticon*

I don’t know where he got that story. Well, that doesn’t matter. My guess was that teh car crashed head on with that something else.

Even if God/Jesus was indeed in that trunk, how could he allow the death of his homies? To prove that we shouldn’t be messing with him? Yeah, that’s so benevolent (all- loving) of him.

** Familiar, Religious, and Amusing Example 2

Now this story has some facts. (Yeah, liek that makes it better.)

The storyteller tells us of John Lennon’s life; particularly this part of his life:

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon#Christianity

On 4 March 1966, Lennon was interviewed for the London Evening Standard by his friend Maureen Cleave and made an off-the-cuff remark regarding Christianity.^[114]

“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink…. I don’t know what will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. We’re more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”

In 1966, John Lennon says taht teh Beatles is now/then more popular than Jesus.

Then our glorious storyteller immediately tells of John Lennon’s tragic murder. FOUR-fucking-TEEN YEARS LATER (1980).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon#Death

As Lennon paused to turn around, Chapman dropped into a “combat stance”^[138] and shot at Lennon five times with hollow point bullets from a .38 revolver. One shot missed, passing over Lennon’s head and hitting a window of the Dakota building. Two shots struck Lennon in the left side of his back and two more in his left shoulder. All four wounds caused serious internal damage, and at least one of them fatally pierced Lennon’s aorta.

And the story ends with teh storyteller’s point:

“Huwag niyong sinusubukan ang nasa itaas. (Don’t even test the One Above)”

That just proves it, right? See? Lennon offends God/Jesus, and FOURTEEN YEARS LATER, God decides to.. get some. I mean, really — THAT JUST PROVES HIS POWER.

The second one is not much of a post hoc as it is a plain crappy induction (induction. tama ba?).

And even if these stories were true, and EVEN if these stories were indeed caused by this.. divine intervention,

is that how cruel God can get? I mean, we’ve just put his name in vain at the most; does he get offended that easily?

Which brings me to another fallacy:

TEH SMALL SAMPLE BIAS

Teh small sample bias states.. unfair statistics.

Example:
2 of your friends say that teh Camero is a crappy car. You believe them. I mean, that just proves it right? 2 out of the 2 people you’ve asked said that it was a crappy car. That’s 100% statistics, right??

But that’s just 2 out of other hundred who are willing to say — and to actually PROVE — that it is, indeed, a pwnage car.

Anyway, back to our stories.
EVEN if these stories were true.. they’re just two stories. I mean, they’re two stories (two stories about believers, even) out of the hundred thousand MORE people who have put his name in vain. Did he count how many of these name-in-vain-ers died a tragic death? Did he count how many of these name-in-vain-ers DID NOT die a tragic death, and instead lived their whole life happy, independent, and successful? Because, I assure you, there are stories of teh latter case. (Take me my 2 best friends, for example.)

SRSLY.

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I’m still waiting for my last car ride, God.

We’ve all got things to be happy about. Things to celebrate for.

Well, I have decided to transfer to WordPress.

Yey.

And with this transfer, I have also decided to take writing a bit more seriously and professionally. I will be trying to cover topics under basic Religion/Philosophy, Music, and the Arts, as well as Media/Entertainment.

“Wow, that looked liek a lot to be writing about! You must be a great writer!!!11oneoneeleven!11″ Hmm, unfortunately, I am teh n00b in using the English Language, so pardon my occasional screwing-ups. You can expect me using some Filipino and 1337 in here, too. (How unprofessional.)

However, I will still be writing about personal issues of friends, school, wimmen and uh, love, which I hope would still interests you.

Will I be happy with my transfer? I’m not entirely sure. I’ve been wanting to transfer to WordPress ever since around 2005, but I preferred Blogger.com’s Fully Customizable Layout feature.

Well that’s not one of my primary concerns now.

This entry barely makes sense.

Here’s a fun picture mocking Xtianity: