BREAKING: Philippines To Cooperate With The ICC!

November 28, 2023 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

In a surprising twist of ecumenical diplomacy, the Philippines has decided to extend its heavenly alliances beyond the celestial realm. The predominantly Catholic nation, often deemed the “holiest ground” in Asia, has declared a divine collaboration with the International Criminal Court (ICC). This celestial decision is framed as an earnest effort to connect with the global community.

The nation, echoing its belief in a singular God, justified the move by stating, “We believe in and surrender our lives to the one God who made the heavens and earth. We worship and praise Jesus, the Son, who died upon the cross to redeem us from sin.”

In a harmonious liturgy of geopolitics and theology, the Philippines welcomed the International Church of Christ (ICC) with open hearts and arms, proving that even in matters of international justice and politics, a prayer or two might be the best defense.

(Disclaimer: Despite diligent efforts, we could not find a logo of the International Church of Christ, so in order to beat our deadline, we used the logo of the International Criminal Court as a placeholder. We will update as soon as our Google search returns a response to our queries.)

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Dateline Zürich: Moving On and the Zeigarnik Effect

November 28, 2023 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

by Maria Bratikova

The Filipino’s clamour for progress negotiates a circular path not unlike a dog chasing its tail.

We do move but when we are done we realise that we have made a full 360° turn – back where we started, square one. We keep crawling back to the stone age, we don’t need any one to kick us back there because we crawl back voluntarily to the troglodytes that we were before civilisation dawned.

Prime example is the latest Ms. Universe pageantry. It had concluded seemingly forever but we’re stuck in it and on it like a Minica that ran over a chewing gum and made a full stop. There’s no moving on. Inertia!

The Zeigarnik Effect may be useful to haul us out of the deep rut we have embedded ourselves in. Progress is a continuing process. We have to do something else that is totally divorced from our inordinate fascination with beauty pageants and prime-time soapy teevee dramas that totally water down our essences as brainy people. Is it because we believe we don’t have any other capital save our external appearances?

Come on . . . don’t be ridi-effing- culous! We do have much more. It is necessary to interrupt our routinary activities to provoke our minds to remember it easier when we get back to it. We have been the mostliterate in Asia until the senior Marcos was oustered. The interregnum took a whopping chunk of a century to bring us to this sorry stage.

Let’s try a new scam . . . like building a jet-propulsion Apparat to catapult us out to escape the doldrums.

Get. Out. Of. There. Do. Something.