Junbals

@Junbals (1421)

Philippines

Joined myLot 5 years ago

I am a sinner called by God to serve the least, lost and last. I am a Christian, a practising Catholic.

Junbals's Discussions

My Revíew of the 2016 Movie - The Dreamseller

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 17 Feb 23

Set in the context of a burgeoning Latin American City, the Dreamseller is one of the best films I have ever seen in Netflix. A CEO of a leading tech company, Julio Cesar was a person of highest learning. He was a doctor in...

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Sparks of Joy

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 8 Feb 23

I watched today "Tidying Up" in Neflix. It is a series of "how to do" documentary shows of families who were in the verge of crisis because they were unable to declutter the mess in their homes. I felt the series was meant for me...

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Bamboo Poles

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 6 Feb 23

I remember vividly carrying a bamboo pole was indeed heavy. Such bamboo pole was used like a water jug in my grandfather's village in Oslob, Cebu, Philippines. I recall I broke one of these poles whille stumbling, when my left...

bamboo poles

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Machiavelli: The Art of Holding on to Power

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 2 Feb 23

Born in the 16th century, Machiavelli got the notoriety of giving autocrats the wherewithals how to hold on to power with reason "in reality", not with reason "in morality". In his book, "The Prince", Machiavelli gave us the...

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Kierkegaard: in the constant state of becoming

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 2 Feb 23

I have been listening in a podcast to the story Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher in the 19th century. He was known as the father of existentialism. I have been amazed by the desultory of topics associated to this modern...

kierkegaard

becoming

trascrndence

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A Tell-all Book of Archbishop Gänswein

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 13 Jan 23

Archbishop Gänswein was Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s secretary and right-hand man. He wrote a tell-all book, Nothing But the Truth, after the death of Pope Benedict, detailing his personal knowledge about the goings on in the...

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We are pope!

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 2 Jan 23

"Wir sind Papst!"( German headlines of many newspaper for "we are pope") was the jubilant idiomatic expression in Germany showing pride in having a German pope after 600 years, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected head of...

pope

benedict xvi

roman catholic church

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A World Gone Mad

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 4 Oct 22

How could a leader of the second largest army in the world be mad? How could he be insensetive to lives lost in a senseless war which could trigger a third world war, sending his untrained citizens as cannon fodder? It dawns on...

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Be Thy Own Master

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 20 Aug 22

John Powell once said something that I believe is one of the keys to happiness and success. "What makes you happy is your basic attitude. All happiness and health begin in the head, with the way you look at things " He's right....

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Seeking Pain

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 19 Aug 22

There is a necessity of understanding pain. Sometimes we underestimate the value of hardship in our lives. Remember how we run away from pain, all kinds of pain? You may say that it is natural to do so. Who likes to suffer? Who...

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A Two-way thing

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 19 Aug 22

Friendship is not a luxury, it is a need. We cannot live a full life without a friend. We are, all of us, a mysterious mixture of needs: 1) the need to be able to express ourselves fully; 2) the need for trust; and finally the...

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State of the Nation Address

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 25 Jul 22

No more lockdown, said the newly minted president of the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., in his state of the nation address. His pronouncement was well-received by a people reeling from the onslaught of the...

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Tradeoffs

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 19 May 22

Life is a series of tradeoffs. You cannot have everything. The mature know this and understand it. The immature don't and are always getting themselves into a vicious cycle of troubles. A tradeoff is the giving up of one thing in...

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Inertia

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 30 Nov 21

"Ignorance is the result of inertia. " I remember reading that line somewhere, but it is only now that it strikes home. Perhaps it is because I met a man recently who was complaining about how he never got "the chance to get...

inertia

ignorance

poverty

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Gifts and giving

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 29 Nov 21

I once met a wife who complained to me that her husband never gave her gifts. She said she was a forgotten and neglected woman. I was surprised because I knew for a fact that her man was a very generous individual who often...

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Hero mom

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 28 Nov 21

I think every mother should get a medal Why? For being a mother, that is why. And that is not at all easy. Perhaps the medal that should be given most often is the "purple heart'. That is what they give to soldiers wounded in...

hero

purple heart

mother

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Trapping a man

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 28 Nov 21

One of the cruellest things a woman can do in order to trap a man is to get herself pregnant. It is cruel because the consequences of such an action can only eventually hurt her, the man she pròfesses to love, and the innocent...

trap

cruel

pregnancy

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Friendship

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 28 Nov 21

Friendship is not a luxury, it is a need. We cannot live a full life without a friend. All of us are a mysterious mixture of needs. One of the needs we have which often goes unfulfilled is the need to be able to express ourselves...

friendship

mixture of needs

self deception

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Counselling options

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 26 Nov 21

Oftentimes, I have been accused of contributing to breakup of families. By encouraging spouses of unhappy unions to say goodbye and try to rebuild their lives, critics leveled a finger at me and said that I have caused marriages...

counselling

marriage

love

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Grateful people

Junbals @Junbals (1421) • Philippines 26 Nov 21

We all have heard countless stories of ingratitude. The world is full of people who seem to have very short memories and who, once blessed with favors, privileges and good deeds, forget their benefactors. Worse still, one could...

grat tude ingratitude

insecurity

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