bantilesroger

@bantilesroger (341)

Philippines • Age 74

Joined myLot 16 years ago

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After Obama, what will you prefer: a Woman, Gay or Divorced Man as US President?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 29 Jan 09

President Obama breached the color, social and racial barriers to the US Presidency. Earlier, President John F. Kennedy smashed the religious barrier. What barriers will be overcome next? Gender? Prejudices against gay and...

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12 people

War or Peace?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 23 Jan 09

I have just finished reading a "unique book by a unique woman." (Library Journal) The book was written by Peace Pilgrim: HER LIFE AND WORK IN HER OWN WORDS. It's very interesting, try to get hold of a copy. Here are a number of...

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5 people

Islamic Banking: Can it Inject Strength into American Capitalism?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 13 Jan 09

A persistent feature of the modern American economy is the predictable cycle of growth-boom-bust-growth-boom-bust-growth-boom-bust, seemingly with no end in sight. I have observed that, over the same period, this has not been...

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5 people

Concept of What a Family Is

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 11 Jan 09

Our concept of what a basic family unit is composed of has certainly expanded in recent years. Some societies now accept - or at least tolerate - the idea that a family may be composed also of two men or of two women living...

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10 people

What is Truth?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 10 Jan 09

Elbert Hubbard describes an editor as "a person employed on a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and then to see that the chaff gets printed." Marshal McLuhan asserts that his study of the media...

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4 people

Middle East: A Misnomer?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 9 Jan 09

The Middle East... How full of irony is the name! Many say that Eastern thought has some fundamental concepts among which are the avoiding of conflict, the non-use of coercive tactics, and - always - the seeking of consensus....

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4 people

Clash of Civilizations: Nostalgia for the Cold War?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 8 Jan 09

Some analysts think that there is a fundamental clash between Islam and the West. According to their line of thinking, Western civilization and Islam as moral, ideological, cultural, and ethical phenomena cannot co-exist. As ways...

clash of civilizations

cold war

cross

islam and western civilization

science

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6 people

Malls and Lifestyle

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 6 Jan 09

We now often hear "I will go malling" instead of "I will go shopping" or "I will go window-shopping." Malls have replaced some centerpieces of our lives. We now go to malls to relax instead of to the beach. To eat good food, we...

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6 people

Media and Freedom of the Press

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 5 Jan 09

A scintillating and well-loved international personality once said that "the freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it..." Do you think this is a fair and accurate description of the...

figures

media

press freedom

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3 people

Is the World Changing Faster than Human Capacity to Change?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 26 Dec 08

Do you agree? Is this good or bad? Do we really need to give up the old values, all of them? Given a choice, what values would you discard, and what would you retain?

change

humanity

values

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1 person

Do you find the fashion industry fascinating? Or is it pure air?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 8 Dec 08

I have always found the fashion industry very fascinating. There is a saying that it's not the clothes that make a man or woman. And yet, the fashion industry seems to be driven and inspired by the opposite dictum, that fashion is...

fashion industry

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2 people

Barber and Robotics

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 5 Dec 08

The science of robotics is slowly but surely advancing. I once read in a science fiction book that, ultimately, all professions, except that of a barber, will be taken over by robots: medicine, construction, metalworks, teaching,...

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Will you buy second hand clothes, shoes and personal accessories?

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 3 Dec 08

In the Philippines, the trade in second hand clothes, shoes and personal accessories has become brisk in these past two decades or so. The stores selling these merchandise are called "Ukay-Ukay", a Bisaya term whose literal...

second hand clothes

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Carbon Sequestration and Cooling Action by Trees

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 3 Dec 08

Carbon is one of the greenhouse gases which contribute to global warming. Trees capture and sequester carbon. Are there estimates of the total volume of carbon that can be sequestered by a tree? How about the cooling effect...

carbon sequestration

cooling by trees

global warming

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1 person

Bicycle Lanes

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 2 Dec 08

I really admire people bicycling along the main streets in Metro Manila and other cities. But I also fear for their lives. Just one small swipe, and they end up on the road, or worse. I see special lanes designated for...

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Edible City Landscapes

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 2 Dec 08

I have mixed feelings every time I see superbly landscaped areas in urban centers. Such beauty, but such waste of productive land too, not to mention funds and human labor! Cannot landscaping that provides feast for the eyes and...

city landscaping

food production

natural beauty

Consumer/Producer Partnership in Organic Production

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 1 Dec 08

Although I have been trained as an inspector and certifier of organic production & processing, I strongly favor Consumer/Producer Partnership in organic production. In Japan they have the TeiKei System. Under this system,...

agriculture

community supported agriculture

teikei system

Restoring Arbor Day

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 1 Dec 08

When I was a kid, we celebrated Arbor Day with tree planting. I think we don't have Arbor Day in the Philippines anymore. How about in other countries, do you still have Arbor Day? Do you think it's a good idea to restore it as an...

arbor day

tree planting

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Motorcycle as Transport and as a Riding Adventure in the Philippine Countrysides

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 1 Dec 08

The motorcycle is beginning to rule as the king of transportation in the Philippine countrysides, or at least in Mindanao. Many factors have contributed to its widespread use in rural areas: bad roads, if any, which a...

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1 person

Garbage Dumps as Centers of Production

bantilesroger @bantilesroger (341) • Philippines 1 Dec 08

Being the repository of the detritus of the population, the garbage dump thus has the resources needed by the population (energy from decomposition, metals, plastics, etc.) if these could be recovered and recycled. This being...

centers of production

garbage dumps

recycling

solid waste management