Showing posts with label apocalyse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apocalyse. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Questions about God and why is it so wrong for being human in the sight of God?

If you think real hard, God was the first tyrant. Yes, God was and still is. Why?

God wants everyone to worship only Him and obey only Him. And by what right? God claims to be our Creator, hence, our everlasting praise. If God really created us, then, why does God need our praise? With or without our praise, God is God. 

In  the Bible, there is a prediction of humanity's eventual annihilation. Why will we be annihilated? The Bible has an answer--humanity continues to violate His laws.

Okey now, so we need to be obedient creatures? Isn't absurd that God even created free will when, in the first place, God wanted us to obey Him?Why complicate matters, when, in the very first instance of creation, God would have made us like robots, right? Why create free will in the first place?

Will GOd destroy us because we are creative, innovators and creators ourselves? What is so wrong with creating things based on our interpretation of reality? Is our reality wrong? 

I thought reality is a creation of God Himself, then, why is it so wrong if humans interpreted reality the way we see it?  

IN the Bible, Revelation says that humans will be transformed into heavenly beings in a twinkling of an eye, and those who do so, will be with God in His heavenly Kingdom.

Why wait for a day, when God can definitely make it every, single day?

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Chiz Escudero and his Apokalipto



I saw that “Apokalipto”, the teaser ad of Chiz Escudero. And frankly, I think one needs to caution Chiz for actually placing this ad on the commercial media route. It might not be the best ad for him.

First, it uses so much Bagong Katipunan stuff that people, especially those between the 21-34 voting age, would never understand. Second, it smacks of “messiah-ship” which can be misinterpreted by some to be an attempt to hide the inexperience of Chiz. Third, it’s too dark, and too cartoonish, again, open to misinterpretation that Chiz is trivializing the current situation.

Also, I really doubt if Chiz was properly counseled on the use of the word or term “apokalipto”. That term is bad. If you’re a serious religious freak or someone who knows the arcane-ish, you’ll know that using this term is “bad”, simply because it has a lot of religious baggage attached to it. Apokalipto is a Tagalog term of apocalyse or the end of the world. The ad plays the term without regard to its religious effects or interpretation and this could also be misinterpreted again by some to be of a messianic ad. Or, that Chiz bears a messianic streak, not fit for the presidency.

Or, maybe, handlers of Chiz Escudero want to package him as our "last great hope"? If they really intent on positioning him as such, they're destroying him. One rule in advertising--don't position something or someone which he is not.

Chiz is packaged here as a super hero, another (un)conscious misinterpretation or misapplication of Friedrich Nietsche. Chiz should decide whether he wants to be a caped (in this case, a hooded) crusader or a president. Never mind if Chiz said those words as "tutulungan ko kayong tulungan ang inyong mga sarili". That did not cure the probable misinterpretation.


And why the use of a kid? And giving her the K torch? Again, that’s too cliche. If Chiz wants to be relevant, he should have passed the torch to the present generation, implying that the onus of responsibility in pursuing transformative politics lies in the present, not the successor generation. That, by itself, is wrong messaging.

Lastly, Chiz is hooded, meaning, are we sensing that he's up to no good? Or hiding something and want nothing more but lurk in the shadows? Or, is this just a "trailer" and like that detergent ad, will show another TVC that shows Chiz as a bearded man with a cane?

Or a Chiz with wings? Come on.

And the ad seems too padyak-ish. It reminds one of the infomercials that plunged Mar Roxas’ ratings. I hate to say it, but Chiz should not show this in public. Just relegate it to YouTube.

Chiz should take the cue from Alan Peter Cayetano’s TVC or even Antonio Trillianes ad. Direct to the point. No cluttered messaging. And no bull shitting. Pinoys hate it when they’re being bull-shitted.

Show the real Chiz to avoid that costly mistake which Mar did in those ridiculous padyak ads before it is tooo late.

That's the problem with politicians---they involve creative ads man for doing their stuff when these creative people don't really have the full grasp of political reality.

And really, people don't need messiahs. Or cheesy ads.