It all adds up to 111 – this year only.

Is there such a thing as mere coincidence? This very lucky year (for the good-hearted) of 2011,   please add the last 2 digits of your birth year and your age this year. How does this happen?

Prohibitions vs. Drugs and Delusions

Had drugs been prohibited around the time of Moses (1391 BC onward), there most probably wouldn’t have been any of the 10 Commandments, a product of a psychedelic cocktail, according to an Israeli researcher.  That Moses was tripping on ayahuasca atop Mt. Sinai was not illicit during those times.  To this day ayahuasca is still used [...]

Pope Fashion: What’s it like to be in his shoes?

This is a raid of the papal closet.  I’m checking what’s inside.  If there’s anything infallible about the pope, really, it is that he will not sacrifice good taste.  Well, I’m impressed.  More of his shoes and clothes here

Wanted: Lunatic

Can be taken in two ways. 1. job opening 2. a pursuance of a lunatic that is to be annihilated or kept within inescapable confines We can add a 3rd way, and that is a joke. Example: “Lunatic” by J. H. Hill I like hunting fossils, a hobby that isn’t exactly my wife’s favorite. On [...]

Manimals: Some evolutionary queries on cheating

While I honestly don’t think that humans must deny the beastly programmings for survival, balance, health and feet-on-the-ground purposes, it is interesting to note that jungle principles aren’t the answer to many questions regarding the solutions to the current world problems, and that we do not even know how jungle we are when we are being that.  [...]

Calculating Age By Chocolate Math

How does this happen?  I receive this every year.   YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH              Don’t tell me your age; you’d probably lie anyway; but the Cadbury’s Man will know!   DON’T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST! It takes less than a minute . Work this out as you read . Be sure you don’t [...]

Are Grounds for Condom Ban Rational?

These have come up since the Health Department started the campaign in February this year.  First, The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines reacts to it, calling for a ban on advertisements and the whole campaign in general.  The health issues: “The condom cannot really put a stop to Aids. Moreover, by creating a false [...]

Magic Cards and Mind Tricks

I find it amazing to think that mind tricks are played bothways and I wonder how it happens…   I haven’t figured out how these photos work.                 ENLIGHTENMENT IS A GAMBLE Adyashanti Time to cash in your chips put your ideas and beliefs on the table. See who has [...]

Courageous Insight

In this season of hope and false hope called the election campaigns, Filipinos just have to look back and review their tough lessons in history.  A lot of people do not realize that in their minds, at the very most, they are free.  But when given the freedom of thought, they do not use it, or [...]

Transcending Capitalism

  DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE DOWNFALL OF THE CURRENT WORLD ORDER.  ~ Lou Hamburger   Sustainability in the money systems, is there such a thing?  I believe so.  But not until we are drained from the pomposity, the high mightiness and delusions of thinking we’ve got what we’ve got; not until we realize it costs us happiness, ours and [...]