Think about it
Countdown to Dooms Day
By Jun Velasco
“The steps of a good man are guided by the Lord,” Psalms 37:23
AT 6 a.m., we were roused by a long distance call of our friend Pepe de Vera of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
“Pare, nasa Inquirer, Governor Spines, accused of large scale jueteng.
Ho-hum, we said, here we go again!
We immediately took to our PDI copy, but saw no Espino, jueteng in it. We learned later it was in the Manila (second) edition.
The subject was a carry-over of our hour long-talk Wednesday with UP Diliman vice president Popoy de Vera on the ugly extent of elections, Pinoy style.
It’s this kind of season that even the once whistling image of the province could be blackened such as DILG’s listing it as a risky zone. This naturally drew shouts of foul from local government officials.
Questions on the evaluators’ fitness — abetted by a willing media — were raised, and point to a systematic campaign to further blacken the image of our province.
Because of politics?
Elections are vehicles for reforms and progress, but they could be manipulated to serve partisan interests and hamper progress.
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It’s now the Manila Bulletin management, not its reporter or correspondent Liezle Basa, that took up the cudgels for the publication on page 1 of a series of articles (December 9, l0 and 11) about Dr. Robin Navarro’s unorthodox treatment.
An advocate of bulalo, eggs and cholesterol-rich food (but never pork and fish without scales and fins),
Navarro did more than used what he learned from his Far Eastern U College of Medicine. After college, he made his own research, having been a soil scientist. A voracious reader of the latest trends in wellness, rejuvenation and medicine, He studied the scientific minds of three German Noble Prize awardees on medicine and added his own experiments.
What seems to guide his steps is his profound immersion on the word of God insisting that both Old and New Testaments are to be treated equally and with reverence. He is the founder/head of the Ministry of Reconciliation.
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Due to its proximity, there is hardly anyone these days who is not talking about the Mayan prophecy… that the world would end on December 21, 2012.
Yup, and no. Its just talk, and we hasten to clarify that the talk doesn’t say “end of the world,” but end of a cycle.
Whatever, the subject has sparked animated, nervous and contentious discussions.
“End-of-the-world” talk, by the way, is not new. Years past, we heard of similar talk or dire predictions. Some were gullible enough to pack up and sought refuge at the top of the mountain or some “secured places.”
Sometime In 2010, when we were president of a Rotary Club in Quezon City (of which Generals Art Lomibao and Col. Pol Bataoil were directors), we sought and got Prof. Jaime T. Licauco, author of that ominous date) to our weekly meeting.
In the meeting, Butch Albarracin (now dead, bless his soul) and beauteous wife Gwen, tangled with Jimmy on his talk that seemed to horrify people.
Jimmy clarified he just lifted a prediction by the Mayans. The dreaded yarn on the end of a cycle and the planets forming a new alignment is causing drastic changes in the climate, causing deaths and massive devastations. Mindanao disaster, New York devastation, tsunami in Japan, earthquakes everywhere are due to the climatic changes, the Licauco line says.
We met Jimmy Licauco during our interactions with psychics Jun Labo, Alex Orbitio, poet Rolando Carbonnel and ex Concon Delegate Tony Pete Araneta (hubby of Miss Universe Gemma Cruz-Araneta).
Jimmy has a side that enhances credibility: a management professor at the Asian Institute of Management, PDI columnist of “Inner Mind,” author of several books, and a TV host.
At press time, a Surigao, historian Fernando Almeda, a book author, launched a “countdown” Wednesday to promote discussion – not to sow panic — to liberate our minds from superstitions and parochialism.
“Historians said the event merely signal the end of a time cycle and the beginning of a new epoch in the now extinct Mayan civilization,” according to the report.
Let’s get a cue from Almeda who has organized a post doomsday forum where discussions would zero in on saving the world from real danger wrought by destructive human activities.
The grave tragedy that struck Mindanao was due, no doubt, to rampant trees cutting and mining operations; abuses by greedy people, which God condemns.
If we come right down to it, it’s us, humans, our abuses on Mother Earth that are behind the spiraling fall of the planet. No one else. We blame the abusers, but we do nothing.
We, too, are to blame.
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