Eternal life is truly the greatest enigma. Mankind is forever struggling to decipher this abstract. While most religions in fact were founded on this quest for an afterlife, the more humanistic ideologies have repudiated this notion. Here, the esoterics and existentialists were caught in a pointless discourse to prove or belies. Amidst the diversity of thought, daresay, curiosity would be lethal, albeit foolish, to prove it or otherwise. 

Yet, it gives credence to look towards a life beyond here. This is to make sense of our mortality. It must be the ultimate wage at how a life has been lived. It could be strange to be good or evil in this temporal realm if at the end there's only nothingness. I find this void absurd and nonsensical than the aspiration for eternal bliss or fear of lasting damnation. The soul afterall is inclined to limitless capacity and is free to wonder. It hence would be worthless to project a being of free will and substance if none of it would eventually matter.

This belief in eternity fundamentally appeals to the moral fiber that corresponds to the need of humanity for a just and kinder civilization. The will to be just or vile shall be accounted sooner or later in an enmesh destiny. In this mystery, the essence of life is eventually engulf in an everlasting constellation that only faith foresees. 

- Dan Quetulio Brizuela 

   Easter 2021

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 Sin is not a mere religious or theological concept. It is the adverse condition of being that confounds the collective order in practical reality. 

While the spiritual consequences of sin may be argued, its actual disruption is undeniable in personal and social exerience. Beyond the mystical remittance, it elicits a confirmed reaction that exhaust the just and ethical component of our existence.

Attonement and forgiveness hence offer relief to sin. Whether it be of divine or human cause, these are imperative to constantly repair the perpetual ravages of sin towards a sustainable life of inner peace and communal harmony.

- Dan Quetulio Brizuela

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Vile is the deceitful connivance that no longer affronts the truth yet approaches to destroy it with treacherous misapprehension. 

- Dan Quetulio Brizuela

 A candle has to melt to shed light.

                     - Dan Quetulio Brizuela

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SOCIAL MEDIA DISTANCING FOR SANITATION OF THE SOUL

As the real world is in a stillness and falls into silence, the virtual world has become too cramped, loud and in quandarry of thoughts, opinion, memes and information overload. While most were given the timeout from the stresses of the daily chores (e.g. work, school, business, etc.), we have turned to social media supposedly finding some panacea. Yet the escalating surge of personal grievances, blaming, outpouring of negativity, gossip, propaganda and political bickering that pervades its realm has deemed it too exasperating for anyone trying to find some solace and hope in this time of uncertainty.

It is comforting however that each has a choice on how to deal with this chaos. Anyone has the choice to filter unwanted posts and unfollow toxic people one finds annoying and offers no relief to the situation.

If the virus is a threat to the physical health, toxic people who are too suspicious, negative, partisan, the paranoid, cantankerous, the poseur, conceited know-it-all, the whinner and angry are potentially deadly to the soul.

While social distancing and home quarantine are the norms to mitigate the spread of the covid19, social media distancing and limiting digital interaction could also be exercise to sanitize our souls. Learning the art of ignoring or totally disassociating with toxic social linkages could actually be good for one's health.

As we take extra caution to guard our physical health, we be mindful as well to our  psychological and emotional well-being.

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The most useful and effective art works are those that provoke. - Dan Quetulio Brizuela

I would rather tell a story than preach. - Dan Quetulio Brizuela