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This whole existence we are in is just one long train ride. We push and shove to get to where we
need to be. Sometimes, without even wanting to be there. Weve got stations. Places full of people.
People who board and depart and alight and leave all the time. Everyone has somewhere to go. There are
people who will be travelling companions, always there for the whole duration of the ride. They are on
your side for conversation, for comfort and for anchoring yourself to when the train screeches to a
sudden halt. There are others who will touch your life briefly for a moment - a passing glance, a
friendly smile. Then, gone forever. Everyone has somewhere to go. But the question is, Where am I
going? Am I destined for anything more than what I have in this moment? Is life just a series or
existential crises lined up for us to take in one by one? Where am I going? But sometimes, it isnt where
we think were going that really matters. It is where we get lost on the way there.
All I have ever wanted to do for the longest time is to get away from everything Ive known and
find myself again. It sounds crazy, but there is an insatiable wanderlust inside me that has made me feel
like parts of my soul have been scattered all over the world. It is incredible to think how small I really
am like a tiny speck of dust here on earth, against the vastness of everything. Now the number of risks,
the number of probable inferences, which a man draws in his whole life, is a finite one, and he cannot be
absolutely certain that the mean result will accord with the probabilities at all. But right now, I think that
finite is more than enough. There is beauty in everything and you just need to know where to look. In
everything on this earth made by Gods hands or mans, there is a small part of me and there is
something new about myself in every new thing I see. It is indeed terrifying and astonishing all at once,
but this is the way I see it. And so the last few years learning about who I am have made me yearn for
the ocean to be as free as a bird. I do not think there is any liberation greater than being face-to-face with
the ocean. The affinity I have with it is something that goes beyond what I can understand. It tells me
stories. It makes me remember my own stories. It must be noted that there are people who are going to
touch your life and change the way you see the world. This life is pain wrapped in so much beauty or
beauty wrapped in so much pain. All existence varies and it is different for every one of us. I still have a
million people to meet, a million places to go, and a million answers to find. Life is an experience. It is
So here we are in the present time and I am trying to figure out about who I am, who I was, who
I am going to be. And honestly, it is scary to think that I know so much. Yet still know so little how I
lived my life so long, but then I realized that my life has just begun.
When I was in high school, my life had collapsed around me my dreams turned into
disappointments as it faced on the realms of reality. I had full of regrets that I let other people to decide
my fate. Little did I know at the time, out of my greatest despair was to come the greatest gift. I realized
that I became a magnet and realized that as an individual I have full control to myself to do what is right
at a right time in a right manner. You can have, do, or be anything you want and we can have whatever it
is that we choose and I do not care how big it is. As I read the book entitled Secret written by Rhonda
Bryne, I realized that we all work in one infinite power. We all guide ourselves by exactly the same
laws. The natural laws of the universe are so precise that we do not even have any difficulty building
spaceships, we can send people to the moon, and we can time the landing with the precision of a fraction
of a second. Everything that is coming to your life you are attracting into your life. And it is attracted to
you by virtue of the images you are holding in your mind. It is what you are thinking. Whatever is going
on in your mind you are attracting to you, Bryne said. Those words caught my attention and began
realizing that all of the events happened to me 4 years ago was affected by my thoughts particularly
negative thoughts. As I mentioned earlier, I am a magnet, not literally a magnet but like a magnet which
have a magnetic force in it for every thought of ours is a real thing bounded by force.
I consider myself as a Christian Existentialist for I believe that Christian faith is the most
important task to be achieved by a human being, because only on the basis of faith does an individual
have a chance to become a true self. Our essence is the product of our own choices. And that is not a
proposition to be learned but a process of choices to be made. As a human being, we our bound to create
choices and deliberate whether our actions will yield either good or bad effects or also our guide to live
with full of contentment. Also, existence precedes essence. As what I understood in our Philosophy of
Man subject, according to Kierkegaard, man is ought to identify who he really is and humans define
their own essence. We are here in this world for a purpose and it is either to become a blessing to
someone or teach them the meaning of life. To exist means to realize oneself through self-commitment
to the choices one makes as a free subjective individual. The individual is thereby subject to an
enormous burden of responsibility, for upon his existential choices hangs his eternal salvation. I believe
that there is an objective reality that can be known and engaged, including divine reality and most
especially that there are objectively true moral principles and that humans have moral obligations
connected to the various roles they inhabit. I met several people who actively participate on Churchs
activities and this is what I learned as I observed their behavior: There are people who claim to know the
truths of Christianity, but unfortunately, do not apply those teachings to themselves. These truths or
teachings must be grasped subjectively and lived out in daily life, if they are to be truly known.
According to Mike Dooley, an author and international speaker, the law of attraction is a
principle which can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts become things! In line with that I
assessed myself on which view about life I should believe in order to become my basis to be a good and
successful person. Will I base my perception on life according to religion or philosophy? Before I read
the book and learned the lesson of Sir Jing, I strongly believed that everything comes with a reason and I
should trust Gods plan. I am not capable of doing many things and I have my own specialties to which I
am suitable and define myself as a person. On the other hand, on the philosophical approach, it has been
said that what you think is what you are. And you can control your future on thinking what is best for
you. That we are the commander of our lives and no one will control ourselves except us. That you
attract to you the predominant thoughts that youre holding in your awareness, whether those thoughts
are conscious or unconscious. What I realized is a mixture of religious and philosophical ideas.
Therefore, the predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts
like, consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature
as stated by Charles Haanel. I believed that in order to be successful in life one must believe on his own
capabilities and also trusting Gods perfect timing on things. There are many reasons why we do not
achieve something but one thing is for sure, God has something more for us to offer.
To further elucidate my philosophical views on life, I would like to reiterate that thoughts
become things and we are in full control of ourselves. What most people do not understand is that a
thought has a frequency. We can measure a thought. And so if you are thinking that thought over and
over and over again, if you are imagining in your mind something then, you are emitting that frequency
on a consistent basis. Again, these are one of the highlights from the book I mentioned I stated in the
first paragraph of the Secret to life and these are the bases of my views towards life. We are like a
human transmission tower, and we are more powerful than any television tower created on earth. We are
the most powerful transmission tower in the Universe. Our transmission creates our life and it creates
the world. Ergo, we are transmitting frequency through our thoughts. In line with that, I came to notice
that the only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about
what they do not want than what they do want. Thus I learned that the feeling of love is the highest
frequency we can emit for the greater the love we feel and emit, the greater the power we are harnessing.
Although many people particularly philosophers like James Rachels that we must treat people what they
deserve for past actions is the basis of desert but I disagree with that philosophical view because what if
the person did something bad on you, are you going to do also an act equal to what he did which depicts
the saying An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Probably not. We are bound with moral principles
and doing negative actions to other people means that we are becoming like them. In addition, one must
not be pessimist. A person must be optimistic in order to attract positive things in life and therefore, I
can truly say aside from the basis that I cited, this is indeed a secret to life.
A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ON GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
Honestly speaking, I did not expect myself that I am here studying the government, foreign
policies, laws, etc. I pictured myself as a student taking up BS Tourism and not AB Political Science.
But later on, I learned that I am blessed to be here that I am a catalyst for change as I share my thoughts
and ideas on the governments plan towards development. Therefore, as a Political Science Student, let
me introduce to you my political philosophy on government as I carried Rizals and Quezons political
thoughts.
that serves as a guide for political action. It has two strands one in which used during Quezons
administration in order to combat for the political and economic independence and the other in the
attempt to preserve and maintain that independence once attained. Government and Societies come
about in various stages of development as manifestations of mans desire to survive in the struggle for
The capitalistic society or state allows unlimited wealth accumulation and recognizes the sacredness of
property. It does not intervene in wealth production and accumulation by property owners even at the
expense of the masses. The communistic society completely denies property ownership by owning all
modes of production and supervising the distribution of wealth so produced. On the other hand, the
distributive society means that the government assumes and exercises the prerogative to curb the right to
private property whenever public welfare demands it. I believe that the government must be
representative in form for it promotes social welfare and happiness and thus safeguards the peoples
liberty.
Education is a vital weapon of a people striving for economic emancipation, political
independence and cultural renaissance. We are such a people. Philippine education therefore must
produce Filipinos who are aware of their country's problems, who understand the basic solution to these
problems, and who care enough to have courage to work and sacrifice for their country's salvation.
Education should first of all assure national survival. No amount of economic and political policy can be
successful if the educational programme does not imbue prospective ciizens with the proper attitudes
that will ensure the implementation of these goals and policies. Philippine educational policies should be
geared to the making of Filipinos. These policies should see to it that schools produce men and women
with minds and attitudes that are attuned to the needs of the country. Under previous colonial regimes,
education saw to it that the Filipino mind was subservient to that of the master. The foreign overlords
were esteemed. We were not taught to view them objectively, seeing their virtues as well as their faults.
This led out citizens to form a distorted opinion of the foreign masters and also of themselves. We must
now think of ourselves, of our salvation, of our future. And unless we prepare the minds of the young for
this endeavor, we shall always be a pathetic people with no definite goals and no assurance of
preservation.
Philippine labor should forge itself for economic unionism at the national level and not just in the
fragmented individual firms. The peasantry lacks homogeneity and should be brought to the mainstream
of economic nationalism. Part therefore of the leadership will have to be drawn from progressive petty
bourgeois elements during the initial educational campaign for nationalism. Once united, the principal
focus of the national phase will be on anti-imperialism. The labor-peasant sector by then would have
grown in strength and experience. They should establish cooperatives. The masses and the leaders from
their ranks will then be in the front lines and will serve as the main force of the nationalist movement.
This happens when mass nationalism becomes the order of the day, and unity among the various strata is
essential. Therefore, nationalism affects the government in its role for nation building as stated by
Constantino.
In a nation, it must be emphasized that a leader must awaken the people to become what they
should be. A citizen must be morally strong, hard-working, refined and public-spirited to build a nation
that empowers the will of the people. As I recalled in our Ethics class, Socrates said that To know good
is to do good. A leader must teach his constituents that will enhance his moral standards in order to
improve their moral reasoning and behave in accordance to their reason. According to Quezon, a country
do not have any right to meddle with anothers internal affairs and my stand on that is that in order to
have an identity to our own country, one must embrace our own culture and policies that will make us
unique to other countries in the world. In addition, in order for the government be effective in
implementing its policies for the general welfare of the people, citizen must act accordingly and
cooperate to the goal of the country. As such, the citizens must me patriotic pay taxes, promote social
justice, patronize local products, conserve wisely the natural resources, etc. The citizens must also
defend the nation in time of war and show must be patriotic to his own country. It is clearly stated that in
order to show the loyalty and patriotism to country, one should pay their taxes to the government.
Though this policy cannot be applied to a capitalistic society, taxes still considered to be the sources of
revenue by the government in order to fulfill its plans, projects, programs and policies. It serves to be the
engine of the country to be developed and to boost its economy without relying unto other countries
government and it is to have faith in the men they select to represent them. Citizens must undergo a
proper education in order to carefully choose the leader and representatives of the nation. Survival of
democracy presupposes that hose at the helm of the government believe in the peoples right to rule and
have faith in the inherent capacity to decide rightly important public questions. In order to survive the
essence of democracy, citizens as well as the chief executive must exercise self-restraint. Imitation of
culture and language as well as products is alien without knowing whether it is good or bad the lack of
a real national soul. And a national soul requires a common language to have an identity an stand out
among other nations. Quezon believed, in which I also agreed that in order to serve the common good,
appointive city government officials must be preferred to elective ones so that local governments can be
freed from the influence of partisan politics and thereby ensure efficiency and impartiality in the
administration and execution of laws and ordinance. It is for the general welfare of the Filipinos in order
to carry out and share their ideas, beliefs, and opinions on the actions of the Local Government Units
(LGUs). Also, there must be a separation of powers on the 3 branches of government namely the
executive, legislative, and judicial branches in order to protect the rights and liberties of the people.
RELIGION
To further establish my ideas on religion, allow me introduce to you the movie Sausage Party
which is trending until now in social media. Netizens reacts that this movie non-sense, offensive to
moral principles for it contains pornographic scenes which are not suitable to children. With all these
reactions and comments from the viewers, I beg to disagree that this movie does not teach a moral
lesson. In fact, the moment I watched this film I realized that this what reality means is. People are
blinded to see the truth for they only look what is being presented instead of why is it being
presented. People laughed at me when I said these things in front of them and it made me sad that there
are only few people who did not focus on scandalous scenes but rather on the meaning of the story.
Sausage Party neither looks nor sounds like a deep, existential movie at face value. However,
between the adult humor and debauchery, the new R-rated animated comedy manages to explore the
important philosophical question of why were here and what happens when we die. Therefore, it is a
legitimate existential horror film. Alas! An existential angst film. Consider my synopsis of Sausage
Party which aside from eliding the anthropomorphization of food stuff is faithful: A man lives in a
world he and his fellow inhabitants believe is simply preparation for a glorious paradisiacal afterlife
called "the Great Beyond." Our hero, however, discovers that instead of peace, what awaits him is
gruesome slaughter. This myth, he is informed by a trio of deathless immortals, was created by Gods as
an opiate for the masses, masses who would, otherwise, live their lives in terror of their own impending
suffering. The man attempts to awaken the others to the unsettling truth, but they are resistant.
Eventually, however, our hero succeeds in rousing his fellow men to confront the Gods and to slaughter
them. They are successful in this endeavor. Our hero has finally achieved liberation or has he? In the
final scene, he is informed that he is simply a projection. Reality, hes told, lies just beyond him, in
another version of "the Great Beyond." We last see him crossing a threshold into this new "Great
Beyond" into what we can imagine is another realm of suffering. Beyond the supermarkets doors,
these mellifluous pieces of produce inform us, is the Great Beyond, a magical place where humans and
foodstuffs live in perfect peace and harmony. When the godswhich is to say supermarket shoppers
take them off the shelves, the beaming products know theyre going to a better place. If they arent, how
come no packaged loaf or deli meat has ever come back to say any different?
One of the scenes shows that there is a smug atheist who take on organized religion as a
palliative for the simple-minded. But knowing the truth isnt good enough. His newly acquired
knowledge to rouse the rest of the supermarkets inhabitants to act, they reject him outright. Hes tearing
down their ideology and offering nothing in its place, and theyd rather exist in a world with clearly
defined rules and rewards. Given a choice between something and nothing, people will believe in
something every time. Sausage Partys take on the importance of belief systems is sophisticated for any
movie, let alone one in which a bagel and a lavash argue over which of them has the right to occupy the
supermarkets West Shelf. Christianity Todays Alissa Wilkinson called it a sort of anti-PC secular
eschatology for a pluralist age. Its comparable to the shock of seeing The Book of Mormon and
The especially odd thing here is that the movie is on the foods side, and so are we. We cheer the
deaths of men and women, the gorier the better. The analogy to religious schisms drops away, and were
left with a depictiongoofy, profane, and animated though it isof the natural order rebelling against
the scourge of humanity. From the foods point of view, we are monsters, growing these sentient
creatures for the sole purpose of grinding them between our teeth, and its only fair if they respond in
kind. They try to enlighten us, using the stoners drugs to induce a hallucinogenic state in which the
supermarkets shoppers can perceive that the things theyve been thoughtlessly consuming their entire
lives have thoughts and feelings of their own, but this time its the humans who cant handle the truth,
and from then on, its all-out warone whose first battle humanity loses in a rout.
Consequently, to cut the long story short, the Director created symbolisms in the movie which
are very powerful to our society today. The shopping mall wherein the canned goods are situated serves
to be the earth, the goods or the product symbolizes the human beings and the act in which they believe
on something, to their gods and the Great Beyond serves to be our ideologies and philosophies in life.
We belong to a world full of uncertainty, a country governed by all rules and regulations, by DOs and
DONTs, by laws. It clearly depicts the idea of existentialism which means that man exists with a
purpose and that existence defines man himself and the world in his own subjectivity, and wanders
between choice, freedom, and existential angst. There are many questions being asked on our existence,
there are many twisted truths. Sometimes we prefer to believe the lies instead of truths. My main point
here is, aside from attending mass every Sunday, men must apply the teachings of God. My argument
here does not mean that people should refrain from participating actively on Church but on the part that
people should act in accordance on the teachings of God. Laws, Commandments were given to people to
serve as basis of having just actions and behave based purely on their moral principles and standards.
Thus, I am saying that philosophy and religion are correlated with one another and one cannot stand
without the other. Becoming a being or Existential ontology, Nothingness, Absurd, Ethics as to
Subjectivity and Good Faith, Choice and Angst are the main subjects and images that have been
developed by existentialists. As the movie implied, the goods or products became free as they defeated
the consumers whom they thought their gods. As a result, the said products committed sins particularly
LUST. Ergo, what I am trying to explain is that teachings in every religion serve to be basis of ones
actions. It does not mean that they restrict the freedom of men it just means that without these laws or
teachings, the world will be in chaos for men will not be held responsible on their actions.