User:Haideism

Haideism is about freedom, adventure, and change being one's lifeblood.

It is about believing in equality; that work sweetens life; that people are naturally good; that there's never a right time to say goodbye; And believing in love.



Scientific Career
I have enough about people who kept on asking me, “What is Sociology and what will you be doing by then?” I usually answer them with creepy smile “Oh Sociology? I will be working on the NSO or PopCom… you know, doin’ the surveys and all that?” It is such a lame answer I know. I never really have an idea of why am I taking up this course.

It was past dinner time when I crushed myself into a pile of untouched hand-outs of my sociology majors. At the back of my head I started shouting, “Eurika, Eurika!” It is as if I experienced serendipity but it wasn’t. It was just a matter of putting an interest upon reading with understanding on sociology. It was then that I found a two-page hand outs that answers all my questioning. It is so motivating that I never get tired reading it again and again until I get to snap back to reality. It is entitled, “Theory and Practices of Social Sciences”: '' “Why are we here? Why are we Anthropologist and Sociologist? Why we do what we are doing? I hope all of you-all of us will respond BECAUSE WE LOVE what we are doing. We love wisdom. We love knowledge. Because it is what we suppose to be doing to add the BODY OF KNOWLEDGE in social science. I suppose if we really love what we are doing-then-we must have added already by now tremendous large amount of KNOWLEDGE to the existing theories in our field. Really??? What KNOWLEDGE? What theories?''”

Now, the answers for these questions will serve as a challenge for me. Because I am a social scientist. . . in the making.

--H.C.L. ♫ 08:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Religious Views
I go about my daily life understanding almost nothing about the world. I gave a little thought about what neither makes life possible, why the sky is blue nor bother wondering if love could really move mountains. It is as if I was sleep walking, except during my younger years when, as a child, I never run out o0f important questions. Nevertheless, I enjoy li9fe of greater independence and freedom that is simply amazing! My growing enthusiasm for life leads me to dream of experiencing extreme adventure: scuba diving, biking down the hill, sky diving and ultimately, bungee jumping. But as I get older, I’m growing more cautious.

My life’s daily pattern of living, eating, studying, sleeping and existing seems to hide the more amazing fact: Life is precious! Life is fragile and life will definitely come to an end. How many more breaths will I breathe in and blow out?

My human consciousness is obviously limited. I seldom come into thinking that my life is extraordinarily precious and delicate which is totally vulnerable to any risky sport and hobbies I may want to pursue—I’m a finite being in infinite possibilities of adventure in this world.

Bit by bit, I realized why death is seen as a giver of meaning. As I struggle with the mystery of my death, I am also in struggle to discover the meaning of my life. That is when I started asking: What on earth am I here for? What is the purpose of my life?

My intellectual curiosity comes from the very nature of my being human. I should ask questions and I should have answers. These answers have serious consequence that will profoundly affect the way I live.

Without further interrupting my routinous human activity, my every action is now implicitly longing to find the ultimate answer—the absolute truth. My sense of craving, somehow, makes me feel that m7y life seems to be a mere preparation towards the absolute. In my human relationships, people may judge me of what I have done but I tend to judge myself of what I am capable of doing. This idea opens to the possibilities of my purpose in life to be linked with the existence of a God.

As a Christian, I have my own prejudices of defending my own points of view about the concept of God. Yet, while exposure to different ideas has always been a part of my educational experiences, I don’t seem to realize my understanding of absolute truth. I was not prepared for something that would challenge my Christianity and something that was so subtle that, at first, I didn’t realize it was happening. Like an undetected computer virus worming its way through a hard drive, I seem to embrace the self-empowering myth that whatever I sincerely believe is true. If I insist that since God did not reveal Himself to me, I may sincerely believe that God does not exist. But the absolute truth is not about feelings and is not dependent on circumstances. This is purely a fallacy of my own reasoning. My understanding of the absolute truth is like denying the law of gravity that just because I can’t see nor touch it—doesn’t mean gravity doesn’t exist.

As a real Christian, I must realized that the humanistic idea that human beings are capable of determining our own way apart from God just doesn’t square with reality. I live in a physical world with its four space-time dimensions of length, width, height and time. God, however, dwells in a different dimension—the spirit realm—beyond reach of my physical senses. It’s not that God isn’t real; it’s a matter that He is not limited by the physical laws and dimensions that govern the world.

Probably, the hidden purpose of our existence, the emptiness and the longing is our desperate needs to be reconciled to God—to find our way back to God. It is sin that seems to stands in our way.

Feminist View
Why are we celebrating Women’s Day?

Because Women’s Day is part of our herstory

On the 8th day of March 1857, women made an event that started it all.

They fought hard and long for the world to listen.

They made it less difficult for us today to speak out and be heard.

We owe to them the spaces we enjoy today, no matter how limited they still seem.

At least once a year, we ought to pay these women our respect and special remembrance.

(International Women’s Day 2004, leaflet, Ecumenical Women’s Forum: “Weaving Women’s Creative Power for Life.”).

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