Comment on Prof. Sonido's Blog Post

     Religion and Science. Why and How? Ha! Laughable. Religion was supposed to be the guiding light for people who are lost and a path towards enlightenment and salvation. It still is viewed as such today, thanks to the colonization efforts and influence of (and coercion by) the European empires, et. al.. Yes, "religion is the opiate of the masses" as the late Marx lamented, and they hold considerably great influence, control and power over the Western world, especially the upper parts. But what is it doing? For years and years it hindered the enlightenment and development that is brought about by science and technology, labeling it as heresy. Labeling something as a heresy just because it proved you wrong (even just a little ideation, or even just trying) or it doesn't adhere to your principles, teachings and doctrines, AND just because you have power is plain ABUSIVE. Again, what is happening now? The Roman Catholic Church has become the singularity for the standard of morality, and I mean it in every way. It is the heaviest entity that exerts force on the masses, through the guilt and fear of them going to heaven, and crushing mercilessly those who are unfazed by their pretty, sugary speeches. Get the analogy? Take for example, the Philippines. It took a LONG while before the RH Law permanently took its rightful place in the Philippine Constitution. Why? The clash was between the superpowers, the Church and the State. Through years of research and interpretation, the RH Law was created in order to mitigate the devastating effects of population explosion, for one. The Church countered with a debate of conception in order to stop the Senate from passing the bill in to Law. Even though, there is already the separation of the Church and the State, the former, with its immense power is still stepping over the lawn and asserting authority over a territory that is no longer theirs, devastatingly debilitating the advance of the country. They can, of course, offer advice, but they should be advised that advice is not an absolute command, nor is the Church an absolute force. I thought they were the paragon of morality? Isn't it disrespectful to force values and ideas into someone's throat? It would be acceptable if it was for reform, but this is for the advance of human society. Sexual education is needed. Period (no puns intended). But the Church has created this atmosphere of contempt and prejudice, suffocating those who try to learn these concepts by persecution. It saturates the masses with doctrines that slowly and slyly, changes our frame of mind, making us think that learning about sex corrupts our minds, which is funny because that's exactly what they are doing. Ye who condemns, shall be condemned. They condemn those who use hypnosis, as it is a "tool of the devil", but they are doing hypnosis on an unbelievably massive scale. Who is guilty of the greater crime now? They burn scholars on the stake and poor dear Galileo's work was labeled as a mere intellectual exercise (which is more than enough to break the heart of an earnest man of science) and put on house arrest. This will keep on happening, only the modes of silencing those who are held in contempt will change. I move for the complete separation of the Church and the State. No buts. Start being critical and not just swallow anything that is offered at your table. Not everything offered unto you has been filtered of the poison this world has been saturated with. A culture of contempt for those who deviate from the norms set by the "singularity of 'absolute' morality" is the status quo. I move for the separation of the Church and the State. Science strives for progress. Religion aims to write status quo in stone, keeping its status as a superpower, forever. I move for the separation of the Church and the State. Anyone to second the motion?

John Paul N. Ada

2010-46567

Short informal discourse on the imbalance of individual abilities in social constructs and its effects

Actually I get what Aomine feels, to some extent. At the beginning, maybe you're weak or on par with everybody else. So you stray away and become stronger on your own so when you get back, you will be able to contribute to the team. But then you become stronger than the rest of them that the group becomes imbalanced which pretty much fucks up the dynamics. The group loses its feel. The social bonds you have are severed. You lose your motivation. You hate weak people. So you work on your own to keep them from dragging you down. So deep inside, you frantically search for people who can relate to your situation. But those people are actually difficult to find inside your current niche and community. It's disappointing. Unless your line of work is physical in nature, let's consider people like them in our field. We should all strive to be stronger. This is phenomenon is alienation. This is marginalization. You might argue that you're not even doing anything to alienate them. But that's exactly it: you're not doing anything. When you can't relate to what they are trying to express (or explain, in the academia), the distance between you are drastically increased and the bonds are thinned or cut, if they even exist in the first place. The gap will just go wider and wider since they have no choice but to get stronger. Growth occurs even you do anything, but they did extra effort initially to rapidly and dramatically accelerate that process. Now they are no longer trying. They are just hovering there at the top. If they try, the gap will just grow wider. If they train or practice, like Aomine said, there will be less chance that people will catch up. They may go tsundere and say that it doesn't matter, 'cause they will just crush all the weaklings that step up, but humans are still social animals. They crave attention, warmth and interaction. And being at the top is very lonely. "The power of the king will condemn you to isolation." That's what CC said. They just wanted to change the world. To improve their workplace. To act as boosters to launch their organizations to greater heights. But what do they get in return? Cold relationships. Cold stares. Cold conversations. Because the other people are virtually enfeebled in their presence. Now I understand how "that guy" felt. It must have been so agitating to have us weaklings as group mates. You might also say that, well, they are just born talented. TALENT IS A BIG ILLUSION. There is only an optimum path to development. People who have followed that path early in their lives have been called talented, prodigies, or even geniuses to some extent. But they don't have to be isolated. We just have to be stronger. Make an effort to be stronger. They try to understand us, but they're thinking has been bumped up to a higher level of abstraction that it already is difficult to express their thoughts, theories and concepts concretely. We just need to have to this state of mind that will motivate us to be stronger. We are responsible for these people. Unless you're some cold-blooded bastard, do them and yourselves a favor and be more productive. Or mother nature will go evolution on you and weed your genes out of existence.