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Maria Aubrey B.

Villamor December 7, 2016


PSC42

VILLAMORS PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNEY: LIFE, GOVERNMENT, RELIGION AND

SOCIETY

As above so below, As within so without.

- The Emerald Tablet, circa 3000 BC

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

uniquely our own. Never take this for granted.

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.

THE SECRET TO LIFE

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.

Political philosophy is defined as a political principle or a set of integrated political principles

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

survival. As mentioned by Quezon (1940), a society may be capitalistic, communistic, or distributive.

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

such as United States of America.


There is one thing that must be noted by the citizens in the case of having a democratic form of

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

realizing that, for all their rationalist cynicism.

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.

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