Hypocrites!

07/04/2016 05:33:44 PM

Isa sa mga programa ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ay ang i-expose ang hypocrisy ng Simabahang Katolika sa Pilipinas.

Aba, matapang talaga ah. Patunay na hindi lamang ata siya hahabaol sa mga halang ang bituka at kahit pag may nagtangka na sinumang kupal na drug lord na lagyan siya ng patong sa ulo, ano.

Tirada Ni SlickMaster: 50 Banned Shades?

8/10/2014 11:29:50 PM

Hindi ako fan ng librong ito. At kung sakali man na ipalabas rin ito sa Pilipinas, ay hindi ko rin ito mapanood (dahil malamang, hindi rin naman ako interesado). Pero para i-ban ang movie adaptation ng librong 50 Shades of Grey sa Pilipinas? Teka, malaking kalokohan yata ‘to ah.

Nagsulat ng liham ang Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines sa Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB)  na naglalayong i-ban ang naturang pelikula sa bansa. Nakatakdang ipalabas ang 50 Shades of Grey sa darating na Valentines Day sa 2015.

Ganun ba? Oo, ganun nga.

Ibalik Ang Death Penalty?

1/24/2014 3:30:04 PM

Kailangan ba talagang magka-Death Penalty muli sa ating bansa? Kung pagbabasehan ang mga pangyayari sa ating lipunan – na lagi na lang yata nagkakaroon ng marahas na kriment – siguro. Yan ay mas solido pa kung ikaw mismo ay biktima ng mga kaganapan na gawa ng mga halang na bituka.

Just my opinion: For art’s sake?

Just my opinion: For art’s sake?
August 6, 2011; 12:58 p.m.
(as seen on: http://definitelyfilipino.com/blog/2011/08/07/just-my-opinion-for-art%E2%80%99s-sake/)

Art is one of the few things in life in which freedom of expression is used. And in fact, that “freedom of expression” is one of our basic constitutional rights. But once a sector spots flaws that violate either cultural, moral and/or religious values, expect long debates ahead.

Mideo Cruz’s artwork turned out to be controversial after the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (or CBCP) broke their silence and protested in behalf of many people complaining that Cruz’ masterpiece was a piece of “Polytheism and blasphemy” in a open forum at the Cultural Center of the Philippines yesterday.

But that’s just not it. Apparently in a report posted August 4, 2011 at ABSCBNnews.com, Mideo Cruz’s art which was part of the Kulo exhibit had been vandalized when a man and woman walked in to the gallery and vandalized then at around 11:30 a.m. the previous day. In case you haven’t seen his work, news clips will show you everything and that includes some religious figures with a condom, a man’s penis and even rabbit or Mickey Mouse’s ears.

However, Concerned Artist of the Philippines defends Cruz and shown their support. Saying that nothing wrong on his work and in fact was a product of “freedom of expression” and that was guaranteed by the Constitution.

On the other hand, Dr. Primitivo Chua of Ang Kapatiran stated in between the word war of the parties that “Hindi yan gawa ng Pilipino. Gawa yan ng demonyo! Pero itong ginawa niyo dito kabastusan… kalaswaan! Mahiya kayo!” perhaps that statement says it all for the part of CBCP and the party list as Ang Kapatiran will file a case regarding the violation of an article of the Revised Penal Code regarding the immoral doctrines if CCP will not pulled the piece out.

Cruz’s response all boiled down to this: "You can't force people. But I just hope that when we look at something, the process doesn't stop at the surface." He has been for 10 years in his occupation and his trademarks for his most of his works were primarily Polytheism, an act of “social criticism and it is part of social development to criticize what’s happening.” That came from the words of Karen O. Flores, officer-in-charge of the CCP Visual Arts Unit.

But as the word war explodes, so are the reaction from all the corners. Like one Facebook user posted "May your soul burn to (sic) hell, you Devil pro (sic) artist," in a news article posted at Interaksyon.com2. Also, a certain Rozanna Martini called Cruz a ****ing asshole and wishes him the worse in hell.

Okay, let me give my take for the matter.

Every one of us has a freedom to express ourselves. In fact, “artistic license” do exist in our acts of doing it. In case of Mideo’s if you think his art was his product of his freedom and was really worth it or another piece of blasphemy. Well, I’m saying “it’s both.”

It was a grave disrespect to the religion of the Catholicism not in the country, but in the world where countries are having Catholic and Christianity as its pre-dominant religions. Call it a blasphemy, him an Atheist, a socially irresponsible citizen, or even a fan of Polytheism. But I’m telling you. It’s his art, not for the church and for anyone else. It’s his right to express his freedom and badly seeking for recognition. Now after spotlights off media all over him I think he was fulfilled at the moment. However, J. Pacena, the curator of Kulo expressed disappointment around the malice reports that the media is showing. “No one tried to understand what he was trying to say. He was condemned and we were judged in a primitive way,”

I mean, Mideo Cruz has his right to express his art regardless of a lot of criticism and death threats responding on his masterpieces. He’s an artist anyway, and his work was at the Cultural Center which was obviously, the venue for the arts. If something could be really wrong, that is up to him and the Supreme Being to judge. For the mean, time if you want to make a good recognition of art, put everything in balance. However for the society where negativity was the name of the game, it takes a bunch of weird ideas to be popular. And not all freedom was given to us by absolute manner as Karen Flores said, "Yes, you can have your faith, and that can be respected. But you must also be able to tolerate and understand other people's views."

Author: slick master | © 2011 september twenty-eight productions. Sources are stated below.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/08/04/11/vandals-hit-controversial-ccp-exhibit

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/video/lifestyle/08/05/11/tension-rises-over-controversial-ccp-exhibit

http://www.gmanews.tv/video/86876/sona-talakayan-ukol-sa-obra-ni-mideo-cruz-nauwi-sa-sigawan

http://www.interaksyon.com/article/9924/ccp-installation-has-devout-catholics-crying-sacrilege

http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?p=57804973

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/25864/mideo-cruz-receives-death-threats-for-sacrilege/

RH Bill: Should it be passed or not?

RH Bill: Should it be passed or not?
n.d. a.k.a. nestor / slick master
05/26/2011
03:47 p.m.

I’ve been seeing a lot of articles over the papers and at world wide web regarding one of the current issues here in the country: The Reproductive Health Bill.

Nah, to be honest, I’m not in a position to made a comment much on it. However I can’t help but to get an act on such since I’ve been hearing news on it for most of the time. Look at this health bill that perhaps should have been passed on earlier if it wasn’t for too much politics and if another party would not threaten the legislators and citizens as well. As the debates go on air to congress and to the television stations as well, The Catholic Church had one thing. This bill may promote artificial family planning such as using of contraceptives, something that in their eyes was been very unacceptable considering the Church as the one of the pro-life groups here in the country.

This bill apparently had been in the limelight already aside from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’ answers. Tourist guide Carlos Celdran, a true-blooded RH advocate had come to the extent that he protested in side a church, with sporting a Fr. Damaso costume and with that Damaso word in his slogan. He has been against religion extremism, but I don’t think that can’t be a good idea to make a protest. President Benigno Aquino III had expressed his support for the bill. However, the Church had also said that P-Noy is a bad catholic, unlike her mother whom was a former president and a (should I say yellow-blooded?) somehow religious icon to the others. And just recently, Manny Pacquiao a.k.a. the fighting congressman had expressed his side on the issue of the RH bill, saying that it should not be passed with CBCP supporting his decision. On the other hand, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago had told the former to back off and just talk about boxing. And Pacman’s mom lashed out words against the latter, well that is something that is shouldn’t been given much attention anyway.

My take for the matter (since I have wrote this anyway) will be I guess, it should be passed. The RH bill should be passed, implemented and be a law. I didn’t make this decision because of some number of responses at my Formspring account had told me that “yes” but for me after hearing arguments for the matter, reading news articles regarding it and after learning a lot from it, I realized that making a better family can be one of our only choices we can do in our lives. The more children that we have, the more we are prone to poverty. If we’re in our early 20s suffered how hard it is to have a source of living, what more if you married your spouse and make offspring or two? (Exclude me in the marriage anyway) and for instances, every constituent should learn and how to be educated on how responsible they should be. Over the past few years, Manila appears to be over populated but it’s because of the fact that many under-privileged habitants had flew by from the provinces just to have a mindset (or stigma either) that city life could provide them better. However, this resulted to skyrocketing rates of rural people living in the metro. It’s not just all about our life-giving organs, but more on responsibility and for the betterment of everyone. But if this one’s is passed, it doesn’t mean that we’re on the right track, there will always have conflicts. And if you really loved your country, get into act. Speak up, and watch for everything. But after all, it will boil down to man and woman’s choice on how they want to live. I mean if they want to have a lot of children, that’s fine. It’s their right anyway. I’d rather support this bill rather than China’s 2-child policy.

© 2011 september twenty-eight productions.