Not to mention the anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, anti-religious, crudest show on tv.
Seriously, I cannot stand the indecency of this show. This show is the epitome of our culture today: down with religion, up with our own pleasures.
Family Guy absolutely mocks God in every single way. I'll give a few examples I saw just by flipping through the channels.
1. Apparently Peter stole a film from two Christians (who were dressed as priests for some reason). It evolves into a high-speed race through town in which the two Christians try to shoot Peter and his wife in order to get the film back. I flipped through the channels and as I passed through it again Lois is hanging on the edge of one of the presidents of Mt. Rushmore (Peter is nearby). One of the Christians points his pistol at them demanding the location of the film. Peter points across the mountain, the Christian nonchalantly walks over the cliff and falls to his death. Lois asks Peter how he knew the Christian would do that and Peter simply replies that "Christians don't believe in gravity."
2. Just flipping through the channels. All the guys of Family Guy are at a bar making gay-priest jokes. The joke said was absolutely crude, degrading, and raunchy. Peter looks up at someone hidden off-screen and says "Oh, no offense, father." and revealed is a shirtless priest (but still with the collar) who replies along the lines that it did not offend him.
3. (The worst of them, to me. Mocking a priest is an absolutely heinous thing to do, but I abhor this simply because they singled her out.) Stewie is absolutely frightened by something. He says it was the scariest thing that's happened since Mother Teresa OD'd in his car. There's a flashback to Stewie driving a car with two gangster looking people and a sick-looking Mother Teresa. Stewie tells the guys to push her out of the car. They're hesitant. Stewie turns around and tells them to "Push the bitch out." The guys push her onto the sidewalk and leave her there unconscious.
SERIOUSLY!!!!
Think about it guys...if anyone has any ounce of decency in his heart, then it's probably happened that he's felt uncomfortable when his best friend's mom or dad is scolding his friend...or telling an embarrassing story about his friend.
If anyone has any ounce of decency in his heart, then its probably happened that this person has or would intervene when someone is being completely mocked.
But how goes it, that our culture simply laughs and applauds a tv show that degrades our faith and our loved ones. A tv show that mocks one of the most peaceful and loving people in history--Mother Teresa--for no reason at all save for the sake of humor.
A tv that mocks our Dearest Friend.
This is just me flipping through the channels; I have never watched a full episode of Family Guy. I can't imagine what other blasphemous things I would see against the pope, priests, nuns, missionaries, or simply well-to-do people.
I don't know about you guys, but with my conscience, I can do nothing but abhor Family Guy.
For the sake of our God, I cannot enjoy it.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
"She (The Church) is the Irish grandmother cooking us Italian meatballs in an African kitchen while singing Polish folk songs. And she scolds as she hugs, and calls us to grow when we least want to and to reconcile our hearts in matters which, in their hour of horror, appear beyond even a breath of forgiveness. She is patient. She knows what she is about and that this work is not, ultimately, hers but God's. She lives to see us home." --David Morrison
Face the fact that, with God, we can face anything.
Face the fact that, with God, we can face anything.
Friday, July 03, 2009
“Life for you has been less than kind
So take a number, stand in line
We’ve all been sorry, we’ve all been hurt
But how we survive is what makes us who we are”
The band Rise Against hits the mark exactly on the spot in suffering. While working, I’ve found more than plenty of time to contemplate such things.
As most everyone knows, we live in hard and trying times. There will always be suffering and hurt at many points in our life. This is due to our fallen nature. Oftentimes it is fairly simple to thrive on the hurt by venting, contemplating on your lowliness (throwing a pity party), or by enjoying the fact that others are acknowledging your depression (pity party); sometimes making situations worse.
I’m not saying these –especially venting and letting out your feelings—are harmful things in and of themselves, but that God has given and always will give us many ways to continue on towards feeling better and therefore towards happiness through other means than things that may be even more harmful for ourselves. Many of God’s aids are extremely simple. Consider:
It takes more muscles to frown than to smile—the less fatigue the better you feel
Holding a smile (even when you don’t feel like it) releases chemicals in the brain that signal relaxation and a better feeling—Facial Feedback
Walking briskly, keeping your back erect, and swinging your arms does the very same thing to make you feel better—Bio Feedback.
A happier person makes a healthier person, literally. Depression greatly increases chances of cardiovascular problems and diseases.
It is obvious by the ways our body reacts to environments that God designed us for happiness. It’s hard, but how we survive is the very epitome of who we are.
Face the fact that, with God, we can face anything.
So take a number, stand in line
We’ve all been sorry, we’ve all been hurt
But how we survive is what makes us who we are”
The band Rise Against hits the mark exactly on the spot in suffering. While working, I’ve found more than plenty of time to contemplate such things.
As most everyone knows, we live in hard and trying times. There will always be suffering and hurt at many points in our life. This is due to our fallen nature. Oftentimes it is fairly simple to thrive on the hurt by venting, contemplating on your lowliness (throwing a pity party), or by enjoying the fact that others are acknowledging your depression (pity party); sometimes making situations worse.
I’m not saying these –especially venting and letting out your feelings—are harmful things in and of themselves, but that God has given and always will give us many ways to continue on towards feeling better and therefore towards happiness through other means than things that may be even more harmful for ourselves. Many of God’s aids are extremely simple. Consider:
It takes more muscles to frown than to smile—the less fatigue the better you feel
Holding a smile (even when you don’t feel like it) releases chemicals in the brain that signal relaxation and a better feeling—Facial Feedback
Walking briskly, keeping your back erect, and swinging your arms does the very same thing to make you feel better—Bio Feedback.
A happier person makes a healthier person, literally. Depression greatly increases chances of cardiovascular problems and diseases.
It is obvious by the ways our body reacts to environments that God designed us for happiness. It’s hard, but how we survive is the very epitome of who we are.
Face the fact that, with God, we can face anything.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Pardon Me As I Talk
I might've talked about this before here and there, but it's so important and it's constantly on my mind that I want to talk about. Forgive me for the very poor use of grammar and style of flow on this topic; I'm basically speaking whatever comes to my mind on the subject. I would grade myself a C+, but at least I can share my thoughts with you guys.
Our generation's culture has been known as the "Culture of Death" especially where regarding the number of abortions operated each day. And sadly, the reference "Culture of Death" isn't far from the truth. Beginning in the twenties something big happened...the industrialization of the car. What happened after that? The once common courtship turned into dating-a man can simply pick up his girlfriend in his new Ford Model T-4 and drive wherever he could without supervision. As a result, the number of unwed pregnancies went skyrocketing upwards. Of course, to solve this unwanted pregnancy crisis, there must be some form of blocking-now commonly referred to as protection-from the evils of conceiving. Birth control pills were being adapted as the better method to keep away from unwanted pregnancies and, therefore, reduce the numbers of abortions. Pope Paul VI, however, condemned the idea of birth-control. Especially in his encyclical writing Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI expressed that birth control was not the answer and that it would indeed bring harmful consequences. As we know, the birth-control still was popularly adapted and we now have in today's culture. Birth control (and the Model T-4) brought the idea that sex was a much more simpler and common thing. Sex was losing it's sacredness.
Our culture-the "Culture of Death"- is now the culture of sex: Children watch sex-educational videos at around the age of fourteen. Our popular media-magazines, movies, books, music, and television-generate the idea that sex (especially casual sex) is nothing new or wrong. Celebrities will gladly show their bodies for the sake of a "good" scene. On top of the fact that popularity celebrities sell their bodies for movies, they also get them published in magazines such as People, Inquirer, and so many other short-selling magazines that glamorize the flesh and the scandals (I will not discuss the eighth commandment in this post, however) of these celebrities. As you can see, our media makes a huge impact on the culture of sex. Sex sells!
As is known, as the sacredness of sex has decreased, huge factors have played out. First, abortions. They have literally skyrocketed as thousands of innocents are aborted a day. One of my liberal teachers himself said that abortion is to be pointed at as the result of obtaining a culture of sex, but that there is nothing wrong with a culture based on casual sex.
As the value of sex has gone down, there is also a huge increase of divorces. Many marriages are the result of unwanted pregnancies, and after the emotional bondage of sex has declined, the couple feel no need for each other and therefore divorce.
A third: the woman. Many women's right activists thrive on claiming their own freedom and civil rights, yet many of them don't know the facts that many women are not liberated, but in fact slaves of sex. Especially since the rise of abortion and birth control, women are (by others or, sadly, by themselves) turned into machines into which they have a hold on their most beautiful function: to procreate. An example: when birth control was first tested on both men and women, the men on the pill found some uncomfortable side-effects due to the pill. Immediately after, the pill was not an option for men. The women, however, had more drastic results; a few or more women had died as a result of the pill. And yet, that did not stop the pill being designed for women. What is the message here? That women are to be subject to birth control even though their side effects were far worse than those of a man? The value of a woman was (and still is) shot down to an objective being made for pleasure.
It's hard not to get sucked into the culture one way or another. With the influence given by the media-music, fashion, and film-it's hard to stay away. But with the help and grace of God, chastity can be attained. There are still people out there who fight for life and for morality regarding the sacredness of the unborn, women, and sex. It is extremely necessary to pray for the conversion of all souls regarding such issues.
Cheers.
Our generation's culture has been known as the "Culture of Death" especially where regarding the number of abortions operated each day. And sadly, the reference "Culture of Death" isn't far from the truth. Beginning in the twenties something big happened...the industrialization of the car. What happened after that? The once common courtship turned into dating-a man can simply pick up his girlfriend in his new Ford Model T-4 and drive wherever he could without supervision. As a result, the number of unwed pregnancies went skyrocketing upwards. Of course, to solve this unwanted pregnancy crisis, there must be some form of blocking-now commonly referred to as protection-from the evils of conceiving. Birth control pills were being adapted as the better method to keep away from unwanted pregnancies and, therefore, reduce the numbers of abortions. Pope Paul VI, however, condemned the idea of birth-control. Especially in his encyclical writing Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI expressed that birth control was not the answer and that it would indeed bring harmful consequences. As we know, the birth-control still was popularly adapted and we now have in today's culture. Birth control (and the Model T-4) brought the idea that sex was a much more simpler and common thing. Sex was losing it's sacredness.
Our culture-the "Culture of Death"- is now the culture of sex: Children watch sex-educational videos at around the age of fourteen. Our popular media-magazines, movies, books, music, and television-generate the idea that sex (especially casual sex) is nothing new or wrong. Celebrities will gladly show their bodies for the sake of a "good" scene. On top of the fact that popularity celebrities sell their bodies for movies, they also get them published in magazines such as People, Inquirer, and so many other short-selling magazines that glamorize the flesh and the scandals (I will not discuss the eighth commandment in this post, however) of these celebrities. As you can see, our media makes a huge impact on the culture of sex. Sex sells!
As is known, as the sacredness of sex has decreased, huge factors have played out. First, abortions. They have literally skyrocketed as thousands of innocents are aborted a day. One of my liberal teachers himself said that abortion is to be pointed at as the result of obtaining a culture of sex, but that there is nothing wrong with a culture based on casual sex.
As the value of sex has gone down, there is also a huge increase of divorces. Many marriages are the result of unwanted pregnancies, and after the emotional bondage of sex has declined, the couple feel no need for each other and therefore divorce.
A third: the woman. Many women's right activists thrive on claiming their own freedom and civil rights, yet many of them don't know the facts that many women are not liberated, but in fact slaves of sex. Especially since the rise of abortion and birth control, women are (by others or, sadly, by themselves) turned into machines into which they have a hold on their most beautiful function: to procreate. An example: when birth control was first tested on both men and women, the men on the pill found some uncomfortable side-effects due to the pill. Immediately after, the pill was not an option for men. The women, however, had more drastic results; a few or more women had died as a result of the pill. And yet, that did not stop the pill being designed for women. What is the message here? That women are to be subject to birth control even though their side effects were far worse than those of a man? The value of a woman was (and still is) shot down to an objective being made for pleasure.
It's hard not to get sucked into the culture one way or another. With the influence given by the media-music, fashion, and film-it's hard to stay away. But with the help and grace of God, chastity can be attained. There are still people out there who fight for life and for morality regarding the sacredness of the unborn, women, and sex. It is extremely necessary to pray for the conversion of all souls regarding such issues.
Cheers.
Friday, March 27, 2009
The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Damien
1. What is your first name? Damien
2. What is your favorite season? Autumn
3. What is your favorite color? Green (it's a tie with blue)
4. Favorite drink? Coffee
5. Dream vacation? Assisi
6. Favorite Hobby? Whatever Works
7. What you want to be/do when you grow up? Nurse
8. What do you love most in life? Happiness
9. One word/phrase to describe you? Imperfect
3. What is your favorite color? Green (it's a tie with blue)
4. Favorite drink? Coffee
5. Dream vacation? Assisi
6. Favorite Hobby? Whatever Works
7. What you want to be/do when you grow up? Nurse
8. What do you love most in life? Happiness
9. One word/phrase to describe you? Imperfect
Enjoy this and share it!
Rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search (http://www.flickr.com/)
b. Using only the first page of the result, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s Mosaic Maker(http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php)
d. Save the image and post it with the questions above!
Rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search (http://www.flickr.com/)
b. Using only the first page of the result, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s Mosaic Maker(http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php)
d. Save the image and post it with the questions above!
Cheers,
Damien
Monday, March 23, 2009
Hello?
This is a call to all you bloggers out there: are you still alive?
I was gonna post something on my thoughts...but for some reason, I don't think they'll come into play with my fingers right now. I guess my thoughts are much bigger than my previous posts' thoughts. On another hand, I really enjoy and miss blogging. Stinkin facebook took control of that. Too bad, though.
Sorry I never wrote about love. I think I wrote part of it, and never got to it. So to save from disappointment, I resign from it. One day...one day it'll be up here though. In the meantime, I deny any responsibility on the issue.
Being responsible sucks. I envy those little kids right now. :-p
I was gonna post something on my thoughts...but for some reason, I don't think they'll come into play with my fingers right now. I guess my thoughts are much bigger than my previous posts' thoughts. On another hand, I really enjoy and miss blogging. Stinkin facebook took control of that. Too bad, though.
Sorry I never wrote about love. I think I wrote part of it, and never got to it. So to save from disappointment, I resign from it. One day...one day it'll be up here though. In the meantime, I deny any responsibility on the issue.
Being responsible sucks. I envy those little kids right now. :-p
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Patrick Madrid's Top Ten Favorite Non-Theological Bible Verses.
Courtesy of Envoy Magazine.
Cheers
#10 Do not eat anything you find already dead (Deut. 14:21).
#9 Give beer to those who are perishing, and wine to those in anguish (Prov. 31:6).
#8 Some small boys came out of the city and jeered at [Elisha], saying, "Go up you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" And he turned around and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys (2 Kgs 2:23).
#7 "Dorcas" (Acts 9:36).
#6 Spend the money for whatever you desire...wine or strong drink, or anything else you would enjoy, and there before the Lord, your God, you shall partake of it and make merry with your family (Deut. 14:26).
#5 I will accept no bull from your house (Psalm 50:9).
#4 A fool's lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a beating (Proverbs 18:6).
#3 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, [but] it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth (Proverbs 26:15).
#2 Behold, you are beautiful, my love! ...You hair is like a flock of goats ...your belly is a heap of wheat ...your nose is like a tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus (Song of Solomon 4:1, 7:2, 4).
#1 There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine (Isaiah 24:11).
Cheers
#10 Do not eat anything you find already dead (Deut. 14:21).
#9 Give beer to those who are perishing, and wine to those in anguish (Prov. 31:6).
#8 Some small boys came out of the city and jeered at [Elisha], saying, "Go up you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" And he turned around and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys (2 Kgs 2:23).
#7 "Dorcas" (Acts 9:36).
#6 Spend the money for whatever you desire...wine or strong drink, or anything else you would enjoy, and there before the Lord, your God, you shall partake of it and make merry with your family (Deut. 14:26).
#5 I will accept no bull from your house (Psalm 50:9).
#4 A fool's lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a beating (Proverbs 18:6).
#3 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, [but] it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth (Proverbs 26:15).
#2 Behold, you are beautiful, my love! ...You hair is like a flock of goats ...your belly is a heap of wheat ...your nose is like a tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus (Song of Solomon 4:1, 7:2, 4).
#1 There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine (Isaiah 24:11).
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Admissions Essay
Something I wrote for my psychology class. Fillers!
Everything about psychology fascinates me. Ever since I’ve learned to put it into the perspective of human life (understanding certain actions, causes, and reasons for experiences with myself and others), I can’t get away from using it. Because of all this, it was no surprise that I have been thoroughly enjoying Psych 1A since the first lecture hearing Ernest Baker’s “The Denial of Death.” But there was one section that attracted me more than I thought it would have; the human brain’s right and left hemisphere, whether as a whole or split down the middle.
I had already heard that the one side of the brain controlled the other of the body, that one side can be more “romantic,” or that being left-handed made you right-brained. The lecture, however, brought to me a new and deep insight as to how the brain actually functioned. I loved hearing that being straight-left-handed increased the chances of not only being right-brained, but the chances of being ambidextrous as well. This especially hit me because I myself am straight-left-handed, and always questioned whether I was ambidextrous or not (I write, eat, pour, and brush left while I do almost anything “physical” right.)
Apart from the lecture, I also had a fun experience reading the section in the psychology book. In module 5, when I read the section, Studying Hemispheric Differences in the Intact Brain, I thought the word associations were incredibly interesting. When I had read the words foot, cry, and glass, the word cut kept flashing in my mind before I even read the word. The same happened when the word camp stuck to me while reading the words boot, summer and ground. I was so fascinated by this that I tried it on two of my brothers and even my cousin- who are all right-handed. They couldn’t associate the words nearly as quick as I had- save for one of my brothers who is very musically talented-a feature that I learned was found in the right side of the brain! Either I had not explained the whole situation well enough beforehand to my family (which I proudly believe to have done so), or I experienced experimentation (and results) on the uses and affect of the left and right side of the brain.
Going along with the left and right hemispheres, it further excited me about learning about the split brain. First, I had never thought that anyone with a split brain could live. Second, I had no idea that something like that could actually be helpful to some cases such as epilepsy. I was so caught up in it that I tried explaining (unsuccessfully, I believe) to my friends just out of the blue. Looking back at my lecture notes on the case, I found out I hadn’t much to write about it. The first thing I wrote about the split brain was, “(the) Split Brain is weird.” As simple as that description was, I can go on with so many other words such as fascinating, awesome, deep, or-as an attempt for a joke of the thought of it-mind splitting! All-in-all, the subject of both sides of the brain has definitely blown my own mind. It has entertained me from the start, as well as given me a whole new insight as to the reactions of things. Strangely enough, I still don’t even know whether I’m right or left-brained. Although I don’t know for a fact, I can now make a much more calculated guess than before. After all the knowledge and facts brought to mind that I recently discovered, I must say one thing: that it is all right to be left-handed (this was a reference in the book about guesses that left-handers were to die early and had diseases and problems).
Everything about psychology fascinates me. Ever since I’ve learned to put it into the perspective of human life (understanding certain actions, causes, and reasons for experiences with myself and others), I can’t get away from using it. Because of all this, it was no surprise that I have been thoroughly enjoying Psych 1A since the first lecture hearing Ernest Baker’s “The Denial of Death.” But there was one section that attracted me more than I thought it would have; the human brain’s right and left hemisphere, whether as a whole or split down the middle.
I had already heard that the one side of the brain controlled the other of the body, that one side can be more “romantic,” or that being left-handed made you right-brained. The lecture, however, brought to me a new and deep insight as to how the brain actually functioned. I loved hearing that being straight-left-handed increased the chances of not only being right-brained, but the chances of being ambidextrous as well. This especially hit me because I myself am straight-left-handed, and always questioned whether I was ambidextrous or not (I write, eat, pour, and brush left while I do almost anything “physical” right.)
Apart from the lecture, I also had a fun experience reading the section in the psychology book. In module 5, when I read the section, Studying Hemispheric Differences in the Intact Brain, I thought the word associations were incredibly interesting. When I had read the words foot, cry, and glass, the word cut kept flashing in my mind before I even read the word. The same happened when the word camp stuck to me while reading the words boot, summer and ground. I was so fascinated by this that I tried it on two of my brothers and even my cousin- who are all right-handed. They couldn’t associate the words nearly as quick as I had- save for one of my brothers who is very musically talented-a feature that I learned was found in the right side of the brain! Either I had not explained the whole situation well enough beforehand to my family (which I proudly believe to have done so), or I experienced experimentation (and results) on the uses and affect of the left and right side of the brain.
Going along with the left and right hemispheres, it further excited me about learning about the split brain. First, I had never thought that anyone with a split brain could live. Second, I had no idea that something like that could actually be helpful to some cases such as epilepsy. I was so caught up in it that I tried explaining (unsuccessfully, I believe) to my friends just out of the blue. Looking back at my lecture notes on the case, I found out I hadn’t much to write about it. The first thing I wrote about the split brain was, “(the) Split Brain is weird.” As simple as that description was, I can go on with so many other words such as fascinating, awesome, deep, or-as an attempt for a joke of the thought of it-mind splitting! All-in-all, the subject of both sides of the brain has definitely blown my own mind. It has entertained me from the start, as well as given me a whole new insight as to the reactions of things. Strangely enough, I still don’t even know whether I’m right or left-brained. Although I don’t know for a fact, I can now make a much more calculated guess than before. After all the knowledge and facts brought to mind that I recently discovered, I must say one thing: that it is all right to be left-handed (this was a reference in the book about guesses that left-handers were to die early and had diseases and problems).
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Fillers
2 Awesome Quotes...in my eyes anyways.
“There is no secure answer to the awesome mystery of the human face that scrutinizes itself in the mirror; no answer, at any rate, that can come from the person himself, from his own center. One’s own face may be godlike in its miraculousness, but one lacks the godlike power to know what it means, the godlike strength to have been responsible for its emergence.”
--Ernest Becker-The Denial of Death
"She (The Church) is the Irish grandmother cooking us Italian meatballs in an African kitchen while singing Polish folk songs. And she scolds as she hugs, and calls us to grow when we least want to and to reconcile our hearts in matters which, in their hour of horror, appear beyond even a breath of forgiveness. She is patient. She knows what she is about and that this work is not, ultimately, hers but God's. She lives to see us home."
--David Morrison
“There is no secure answer to the awesome mystery of the human face that scrutinizes itself in the mirror; no answer, at any rate, that can come from the person himself, from his own center. One’s own face may be godlike in its miraculousness, but one lacks the godlike power to know what it means, the godlike strength to have been responsible for its emergence.”
--Ernest Becker-The Denial of Death
"She (The Church) is the Irish grandmother cooking us Italian meatballs in an African kitchen while singing Polish folk songs. And she scolds as she hugs, and calls us to grow when we least want to and to reconcile our hearts in matters which, in their hour of horror, appear beyond even a breath of forgiveness. She is patient. She knows what she is about and that this work is not, ultimately, hers but God's. She lives to see us home."
--David Morrison
Monday, January 12, 2009
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