tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post3435807066533875460..comments2023-06-07T07:36:29.060-05:00Comments on Lily Pad: Zen and the Art of Disaster-PreparednessAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-71100190554553068802009-12-08T20:29:38.614-05:002009-12-08T20:29:38.614-05:00it.cmd.ripley:
Thanks for the kind words.
Wha...it.cmd.ripley: <br /><br />Thanks for the kind words. <br /><br />What can I say about the future of the archipelago? <br /><br />On the one hand, I am tempted to quote from Gabriel Garcia Marquez that there are no second chances for countries given a hundred years of solitude.<br /><br />On the other, I am tempted to quote from Lord of the Rings: the shire may be saved but not for me. <br /><br />It's just taken and is taking too long. <br /><br />And it might just help the process go quicker if those of my generation realized the "Not For Me" and head off to the Forever Isles.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-77296202435329866842009-12-04T13:18:05.003-05:002009-12-04T13:18:05.003-05:00why should i recommend anything to us citizens? i&...why should i recommend anything to us citizens? i'm not an american. they'd simply tell me worry about your own country's problems, which makes sense.<br /><br />every administration in the philippines has an economic recovery program. this means two things : we are never recovering, only always trying to recover. which means life is not getting for anybody in the philippines.<br />(gloria macapal-arroyo found a way around this : she invented statistics to prove life is getting better for us.)<br /><br />why don't we let people know it's never going to get better. life will always be difficult for the vast majority. if they can live with that, well and good. but give them the option not to live with that, to put an end to it all.<br /><br />at the very least, can we tell our people that it is wrong to beget so many children when they have no permanent jobs and no permanent homes, as in squatters, and not even assured of daily meals? if we can't alleviate poverty, can we at least not spread it?<br /><br />the thought of assisted mass suicide occurred to me after reading an article on euthanasia. some people call it assisted suicide, but those whose loved ones underwent it call it by a term to which i agree : death with dignity.<br /><br />to anybody who disagrees with helping people die, you might want to get hold of toni morrison's novel 'beloved'. (or just buy the DVD.) if you could get hold of a thomas bullfinch or edith hamilton, read the part where medea killed her two sons in the adventures of jason. then see if you can condemn these women.<br /><br />to ate nina,<br />yes i think we're fascinating. i'm trying to write a novel myself about us.<br />let me, as well, take this opportunity to say i love 'state of war' and 'twice blessed' is hilarious. i love 'state of war' so much i can recite some paragraphs from memory.lt. cmd. ripley (formerly anonymous)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-19466415143110010862009-11-27T00:09:06.505-05:002009-11-27T00:09:06.505-05:00That, my dear anonymous, would just be another qui...That, my dear anonymous, would just be another quickie. <br /><br />And pound for pound, Filipinos are still better as a people than certain segments of say, the white society.<br /><br />We're here, we're weird; get used to it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-11318312203014725652009-11-25T16:45:22.113-05:002009-11-25T16:45:22.113-05:00i have a suggestion, which i'm sure sounds inh...i have a suggestion, which i'm sure sounds inhuman, but it is out of kindness that the idea occurred to me.<br /><br />life in the philippines will never get better. (if you disagree with that statement, please explain your position. the proof of the truth of my statement is everywhere in the philippines.)<br /><br />since life will never get better for filipinos, isn't it an act of kindness to help them die, in an assisted mass suicide? you will end their misery that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com