Silver Screen: Do you Know what I Know?

What if all you thought you know isn’t enough to save you? What if all you thought you know would vanish because it was meant to be useless when the time comes?

What if someone knew exactly when and where that very knowing would end?

Knowing will answer all of that.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not talking about exhausting your every brain cells to try to decipher this complex and enigmatic predicament.

I’m talking about the movie Knowing, starred by Nicolas Cage.

The movie is about a little girl who somewhat acts as a prophet of some divine or supernatural, even an extraterrestrial being. Nameless voices whisper to her in a chorus with one point to make.

To tell her every major tragedy on planet earth.

And it does not end there.

It comes with the exact date and exact GPS location. Latitude and longitude. And what’s more bizarre to that is that it also comes with the precise figure of casualties in those disasters.

She tries to list them all in a paper and just as she was about to finish listing, the teacher grabs it from her and puts it in the school’s time capsule, only to be opened after five long decades on the school’s anniversary.

She grew old watching the world crumble to what seemed like a worthless roster of numerical lunacy.  

After 50 long years, the time has come. The moment has finally come to unearth the mystery that toyed with the earth. For fifty years, this buried piece of paper played puppet master to the unfortunate humans-made-puppets. With tragedies ranging from plane crashes, boat wrecks, gut-flying car collisions and the likes.

And Nicolas Cage’s son is the one who gets the paper written by Lucinda Embry [Lara Robinson] half a century ago. It wasn’t a coincidence. It was pre-determined.

Nicolas Cage is skeptical at first. But out of nothing, he tries to decipher what this insane roster of useless numerals meant. And he found out just what he wanted to find out.

Nicolas Cage plays with each excruciating truth the number conceals within its numerology. And as he tries to save people from the seemingly concluded, sealed and sold-out heartrending front seat ticket to Hades, he tries to break the limit.

Save the world from its end.

But how about the last numbers unwritten on the paper? Those indicated where the end of the world would occur? And what about the last EE written on the part where the number of people who will die?

Who will be saved? Who are the chosen ones?

The end of the world as the piece of paper indicated: 10/19/09.

Would you believe it just like Nicolas Cage? Or are you to be categorized to those who did not believe the Old Prophets like Ezekiel? [Included in the movie. Read the Scriptures regarding this point.]

I was silenced by the movie.

Hint: The world, according to the movie would end by means of burning. A solar explosion wiped out humans from the face of the world. Does that make sense? Reading the apocalypse can be of great help.

Are the current signs a silent witness to the impending doom the earth is going to suffer? Is it too end to change God’s mind? Or is it already written in God’s mind?

But my stand remains. I am silenced. Both in mind and spirit. And I am petrified. 

Moral Lessons: Repentance. Global Warming Awareness. Preparing for the End of the World.

Now, Do you know?

[See YouTube for comments of the movie.]

Free

Free
By Jomari Manzano, SJ
Easter Sunday 2008
Dedicated to Ateneo de Manila High School Graduating Batch 2008

I. It’s difficult to live the ordinary
The routinary time spent by the minute
It’s difficult to stand alone on stage
And have as our audience just our self

It’s difficult, yes it’s difficult
‘Coz often times we think
We’re alone
We live on our own.

Refrain:

Break free from yourself
You are not made ordinary
Set free your own ways
And live up to your destiny
Stand up and learn to walk
Take that road
That’s made for you (Repeat last two lines)

II. It’s difficult to spend our longest hours
Perform our tasks and roles unnoticed by others
It’s difficult to face our limitations
Life’s ups and downs that look without direction

It’s difficult, yes it’s difficult
‘Coz often times we think
We can’t change
Can choose no more. (REF.)

It’s difficult, yes it’s difficult
‘Coz often times we think.

Controversial: AIDS not wholly a Scientific Problem, also a Morality Problem

Re: The Pope in Africa [post #26501979 is a reply to post #26266214 ]

IN addition to that. I guess the Pope did not mean it to be scientifically futile to use condoms against the spread of AIDS. Of course it is proven to be effective.

HIS point is that[in my view], the main root of AIDS is sexual irresponsibility. And condoms somewhat elevates the risk of it.

THE knowledge that you can just have sex or rape because there’s a condom or whatever, that makes you think that you can go on with your whim and have sex or rape even when you are AIDS positive.

And we all know that not all condoms can be successful in blocking spermatozoa from penetrating the genitalia.

CONDOMS AREN’T REALLY THE SOLUTION..

In my own reckoning, the solution should be radically [from the roots]attacked.

I mean, the root of all of this is the sexual megalomaniac mentality of some demonic people out in the African wilds having some mentality of doing some BORN TO BE WILD, WILD WILD WEST and MOULIN ROUGE type of sex to his GF or even to just a passerby.

WORSE, AN INNOCENT LAUGHING HYENA OR ONE HOT MAMA HIPPO.

A wide campaign should be launched. Something that can kill the grass from the roots. We all know that weeds aren’t killed by cutting off a segment of it. Cutting off the roots WILL!

Go Pope Benedict! SIS BOOM BAH! We are right behind you. NEXT TIME, learn how to play showbiz. Like no comment? Ha ha Kidding.

Made the right move. But made the WRONG approach.

You should learn from Bebe Gandanghari. Be a little showbiz.

Bottomline is: For the Current AIDS-stricken Africa who still failed to eradicate it, it is a SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM. For the Catholic Church who wants to help in alleviating it, it is a MORALITY PROBLEM.

[Updated on: , 03/30/09 02:06 AM ]

Controversial: On Pope Benedict XVI’s Condoms Worsen AIDS in Africa

Re: The Pope in Africa [post #26501456 is a reply to post #26302733 ]

Yah. Yet another one. Following the so-called defamatory Islamic remarks he had. Well, that one was exaggerated. What do you expect..Islam is the most perfect RELIGION as they propagate. So yah, you can’t say much about that.

I guess, the Pope had the wrong approach.

Kasi if you are non-Catholic or non-Believer, diba kung you get the phrase he said verbatim..

condoms makes aids crisis worse…

Talagang kakalembang ang bells ng ears mo. And readers,[as what we are taught] they understand it as they read it. Most of the readers of tabloids and published materials they read the headline. Period.

So yah. Another poison taken by the Pope. And there’s a drive in facebook against the pontiff. All the haters are overflowing with anger and monstrous plots like killing the Pope or doing some damage to his name.

And he brings the name of the Catholic Church. So we are also affected.

Don’t worry. I still cross myself when I pass by a Church. And in my experiences, pakonti nang pakonti ang mga Katoliko kung base sa sign of the cross ang bibilangin at sa taong pumapasok sa simbahan.

[the question is. to be or not to be? hanggang kailan ako magtitiis sa mga nanlilisik na mga mata ng non-Catholics. hahaha! well, sa stats ko 2 out of 10 lang ang Catholics sa most jeeps na nasasakyan ko. Pati yung drayber non-Catholic. hahaha!]

But kahit iilan na lang ang matira sa mga katoliko, sila yaong mga tunay na sumusunod kay kristo.

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But I agree with his remarks.

Sana lang maayos nya ang gusot na to. He’s making so much noise on the web and in media. I don’t want to be tasked in Ateneo pub to write how the world hates the Pope and the Catholic Church. [ouch] I really don’t. But if that happens, I am a journalist first before a Catholic. [ouch again.]

[lalo na kung si Papa Juan Pablo ang ganitohin. base sa facebook talagang hated na talaga si PPBXVI]

Well, I can’t pass the job to some protestants. Ewan ko kung gawin nilang blind item si Papa Benedetto. Ha ha ha!

Now this is why people compare him with PJPII. Even me, nung una hindi masyado ako sympathetic to the current pontiff. But I realized na he is somewhat a blessing. Marunong talaga pumili ang Diyos.

Kung kelan nagiging talamak ang imoralidad, He chose a Pope just suitable for that. A conservative one.

But I miss PJPII. Thanks to my grand ma, I hear his voice everyday. I got a Rosary CD blessed by the Pope himself. And his voice is in it.=)

[Updated on: , 03/30/09 01:39 AM ]

From 100% Katolikong Pinoy Discussion The Pope in Africa.

Silent Lent Detour: The Camera Dilemma

I am silently waiting for this camera to come. It has been quite a while since I last blogged about it. And yet, I still don’t have a grasp on anything even close to that gadget.

Well, I bought myself an imitation of the iPhone. But its camera is mediocre. It says it is 3 megapixels, but if you scrutinize the photos that it captures it seems to be 3 VGA. What do you expect, you can’t really look forward to buying quality imitations.

Imitations are meant to be counterfeit and bogus. In layman’s term, a fake. And fakes aren’t the real thing.

I found this Nikon camera in a mall somewhere. It is of the DSLR specie. Some say, it’s posh. But I don’t really care. I am an amateur shutter bug and I have no idea about cameras and its nitty gritty. When I window shop for them, I bring with me my best college pal. She has somewhat opened my third eye for digital photography, so to speak.

Believe it or not, I joined a digital photography contest in the Ateneo. And I find it ironic that we only took shots on the actual deadline! What a way to jumpstart my photography fantasies! At least, Ateneans saw how I suck in it. To add insult to injury, I was posting my rubbish along side the top photographers in school. 

I was not satisfied with what I first discovered. The camera, that is. Of course, this will be my first historical purchase of a gadget this expensive. It ranges not less than twenty thousand or a little higher than that. So, I went to another mall with the same pal. We found nothing. We were about to trod near the place where they sell cameras. We didn’t know it existed. It was amongst the fashionista outlets too so we decided not to further force the issue. Who would think a gadget store will be with the fashionista one?

I came back to the mall. This time without the pal and without the idea of a camera serendipity story. I was there to sing my heart out in the karaoke section of Time Zone. After that, I walked and checked on the social climber types of boutique around. 

Lo, and behold. I saw the gadget store. Right then and there, I discovered how fatuous I was. It was right where we decided to turn back and walk home! I saw some cameras, it was a bit more expensive than what I earlier saw. But I guess it’s more techie than my first find.

I silently walked my way out of the mall. I was weighing the pros and cons of both the cameras that I saw.

But then again, a gust of wind got my attention.

I didn’t have the money to obtain at least any of them. And I still don’t.

Perhaps, it’s a silent witness. God wants me to detach myself of me, me, me and another me.  

This time it’s about Him, Him, Him and His Sorrowful Passion. 

In Him alone are we satisfied.