Grandparents BABYSIT

It is when you retire that you find joy not only in driving for the family but babysitting for your grandchildren meaning – YOU ARE A BABYSITTER AND A FAMILY DRIVER.

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The greatest threat to safe driving is the exponential rise of riders (motorcycle) that is not going to get better, never because their numbers will continue to rise. With the new law to curtail the sale of cars to non-garage owners, more people will turn to motorcycles not to mention the rising numbers of online store couriers on two wheels and of course - "Angkas."

August is a "GHOST MONTH"

From time to time, I would check my new toy – a CCTV camera that deceptively resembles an ordinary light bulb (a niece had given it to me a week earlier). In the evening of August 2, I saw a white light or something that resembled a skull. It was 1 minute past midnight. I unlocked the door and checked the terrace. I was hoping, I’ll find a ghost sitting on my car and yeah, I didn’t know until a day earlier that August is a ‘ghost month.’ I was certain, it was a light reflection from somewhere but I didn’t find where it was coming from. The last time I checked was 5 o'clock at dawn and it was still there. I assured myself, I will find it again in the evening. If it is a permanent fixture, it will always be there but the next evening, it wasn’t there.

B4 I 4get: 50 years ago, today - THE MOONWALK

It was the most significant event in the history of humankind…up to that moment in time.

The boarding house was on the 4^th floor of Laperal apartments.

In Marawi City, there was no electricity…sorry, there was, but only for those who could afford it. The light in Marawi, then and now, is an animal that is more often dead than it is alive. When I was young, television was a distant fiction that I saw only in the movies.

I arrived in Manila in 1968.

Our landlady rented two apartments that faced each other. In one apartment, student boarders lived, and in the other, the family lived, which also served as a dining and receiving room, complete with a television.

At 8:00 p.m. on July 19, 1969 (if I remember correctly), all the student boarders huddled together in front of the TV. It was also the first time a global live broadcast of any event took place. It was the dawn of satellite global broadcasting.

By midnight, only half of the original group of about 10 were left. The time of the landing kept changing, and by 6 AM, I was the only one left. When Armstrong finally delivered, “one small step…one giant leap for mankind,” it was past 7 in the morning of July 20, 1969, and I was all alone – a moment I cherish to this day. If it was a hoax, then I was a witness to the greatest hoax in human history.

Fifty years from now…the moon will be a common tourist destination. Human settlers will thrive on Mars, and with my 14-year-old daughter, who is obsessed with astronomy, she will probably make it to the moon and maybe Mars – why not? Technology is no longer a creeper…it is a jumper zooming at the speed of light. Fifty years from now, robots will be exploring the seas of Europa and Enceladus, and maybe they will have found life in those water worlds virtually a stone's throw away from Earth.

If I live long enough to witness the first man walk on Mars, I will sail towards the sunset with a smile on my face.

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MIGHT MAKES RIGHT: Philippine vs China

Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf...West Philippine Sea or South China Sea?

Since the first man walked on these archipelagos, those clusters of rocks and sand sticking out of the sea have been there. Because we have more than 7,100 Islands - those useless rocks and sands so far, far away were not even registered in our consciousness, and for eons of time, it mattered not to us.

...then came China. They started building beautiful structures. They expanded the Islands by reclamation. They bought lands from the Philippines, where they flattened the hills and mountains, bringing the earth to reclaim the Islands.

When we learned what was going on, it was too late to shout foul. It was too late to say, "Stop! These Islands are ours, but who gave us the right to claim them?" Not a single Filipino living there was arrested or deported by China, meaning those tiny Islands were there for the taking.

What proof do we have that those Islands are ours - nothing. Is it because it is closer to us than China? Why does England claim the Falkland Islands when it is laughably closer to Argentina than England? "Might" makes it right.

Why did Spain claim the Philippines as theirs in the not-so-distant past, and call every Filipino an Indio (slave) - "Might" makes right! 

When the United Nations partitioned Palestine and gave half of it to the Jews (the Philippines voted for it), was it right or was it wrong? When the U.N. arbitration in the Hague declared the West Philippine Sea part of the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, was it right or was it wrong? China says...wrong! Is there anything we can do about it? "Might" makes it right. When Trump said I could not punish the King of Saudi Arabia for the murder of Khashoggi because the king was buying from us billions worth of armaments, the world fell silent - again, "Might" makes right.

DU30 is the world's most competent foul-mouthed leader of our time. He knows how to play the game. It is better to be a friend of China than a war dog of the USA. 

QUR’AN MYSTERIES: THE 124,000 PROPHETS

The mind-bending mystery of the Qur’an is its hidden meaning, which, according to it, is intended for those who reflect, ponder, and are endowed with knowledge.  

Muslims believe many prophets existed, including those not mentioned in the Quran. The Quran states: "There is a Messenger for every community." The hadith reports that the Prophet Muhammad said that there were approximately 124,000 prophets and 313 messengers. 

At the outset, the 124,000 prophets and 313 messengers are precisely what they say, but does it also mean to tell us that there are 124,000 religions spread among mankind and 313 non-religious beliefs?

When God said, 'I created angels from light (visible energy) and the Jinn/spirits from smokeless fire (invisible, dark energy),' we accepted it without even pondering how it could be possible. We consider smokeless fire to be simply fire without smoke. We are missing the real message because light and its nemesis are invisible to the naked eye. Of course, smokeless fire means a fire you cannot see. It is only in very recent times that the scientific community has discovered dark matter and dark energy, and scientists refer to them as "dark" not because they are dark, but because they are invisible. Do you think it is by accident that it perfectly fits the Qur’an’s smokeless fire (fire or energy you cannot see)?

ANGEL vs JINN/SATAN 

THE FORCES OF LIGHT vs THE FORCES OF DARKNESS

Eventually, the scientific community will undoubtedly acknowledge “dark energy” as anti-light, the forces of darkness accelerating the universe's expansion. It is ripping the universe apart, as described in the Qur’an as “When the sky/heaven is rent asunder.”

Did we Evolve from Monkey or Created out of Star Material?

Let the evidence speak for itself. Are we evolved from monkeys (Darwinian theory of evolution), or did we evolve from the stars (created by God)? The only evidence of evolutionists is a few fragments of bones from a few million years ago, which they assume to be the first humans, but are more monkey-like than human. They named the jawbones "Lucy." The creationist's evidence is numerous, with various versions that cater not to the truth but to human folly. Like Idol worship, we create our reality and choose to believe it.

They removed me from the group “Neil deGrasse Tyson” (the more popular one) because, in the last few days, I stood for God against evolutionists and atheists who think that believers in God are morons, stupid, and fools. This was my previous post that led to my removal, and all my group posts were subsequently deleted.

The following is the truth I chose to believe, a truth I didn’t create but one I found on the road least traveled. 

The Garden of Eden is not on Earth. It is out there…the truth is out there. Adam and Eve were the first settlers on Earth, according to the story of the Garden of Eden. They may have purposely killed off the Dinosaurs long before they decided to settle on Earth. According to the Bible, Adam's first wife was Lilith. Eve was the second wife. Adam’s children went out and found themselves wives, meaning there were other earth settlers.

If Adam and Company were from the Garden of Eden, they came from a perfect planet where people are immortal. Not the immortality of superheroes that we fantasize about in the movies, but immortality from diseases, meaning they can only die of unnatural causes. 

You could be thinking at this point…I am nuts! I am an MD, and people naturally don’t live for hundreds of years. Even if you have perfect health, your body will be ravaged by time, not disease. Your body will succumb to the ravages of time, given the nature of planet Earth, but aha, not in the Gardens of Eden. Adam lived for a thousand years, meaning he was immortal, and so were the prophets, who had inherited genes that made them immortal. Our genes eventually adapted to the nature of planet Earth. We ceased to be immortals. We die of both natural and unnatural causes. We lost our immortal genes.

The Qur’an version is evident that the Garden of Eden is not on this planet. God spoke of Earth as a totally different place, as if banishing man to an Island in the vast ocean of space to serve for a specific, limited period.

1)    “...get you down” (from where...?)

2)    “...with enmity between yourselves.” (It would imply that Adam and Eve were not alone and would sync with the Bible. Eve was Adam’s second wife. The first wife was Lilith. The children of Adam went out and found themselves wives, meaning there were other Earth settlers.)

3)    “...Earth will be your dwelling place for a time,” meaning they came from somewhere else. Earth was an alien planet.

4)    “...but from it you shall be taken out at last,” meaning humankind will abandon Earth at some point in time. Based on this verse, will I be wrong to assume that in the case of the Earth’s destruction, humankind will be evacuated back to the Garden of Eden?

Qur’an:

Qur’an 10:66 – “Behold! Verily to Allah belong all the creatures in the heavens and on Earth.”

          Qur’an 4:36 – “Then praise to Allah, Lord of the heavens and Lord of the Earth, Lord, and cherisher of all the Worlds.” (The world is always plural everywhere in the Qur’an, meaning universes that would sync with the “MULTIVERSE” theory.)

          Qur’an 30:26 – “To Him belongs every being that is in the heavens and on Earth. All are devotedly obedient to Him.”

          Qur’an 48:4 – “For to Allah belong the forces of the heavens and on Earth.”

          Qur’an 19:93 – “Not one of the beings in the heavens and the earth but must come to the most gracious as a servant.”

          Qur’an 13:15 – “Whatever beings there are in the heavens and on earth do prostrate themselves to Allah with goodwill or despite themselves so do their shadows in the morning and evening.” (As spirits, angels are generally accepted to have no shadows that would make this verse very significant as to the physical nature of those extraterrestrial creatures of the heavens)

          Qur’an 42:29 – “And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the living creatures that He scattered through them, and He has the power to gather them together when He wills.”