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2014 In a Nutshell

                The year is about to end and let me give a year ender status report.                 This year started rough for the previous one ended so too in rough manner when the issues of the heart drowns the desperate soul. Yet not later than a 3 month space there was a comeback because such pain was unbearable and both were at loss when they were not one.                 When summer came I was faced with a challenge from work that is they wish to remove a thorn in their conservative belly. Especially when this thorn took roots upon its own and many were dying to follow. But they cannot afford their rule be questioned and challenge by a mere commoner. Thus I was booted out.                 After the fall, the vacuum came and the beauty of my isolation was disturbed and thus in bankruptcy I was forced to be recalled into my original post. A month in complete devastation of being at loss in one’s own means for survival. I started to find that means again, yet the cont

Philosophy Today

            “Obsolete” as how one person of rank said about philosophy. It was even inside a general assembly and I think that was a very bold statement from one who has no Ph.D, but an Ed.D. If I remembered it well, me, Regletto and Balotol were there, just listening. Since it was public, so many did follow that statement and use that to tease us even inside the office. Sad to say, they have ambitions to have a Ph.D or and Ed. D as well. Sometimes you wish to just explain to them, but I guess reason cannot be effective to those who do not have any. Or shall I say, the only thing they have learned in their philosophy classes is only to incant terms with “isms” so as to sound smart and conjure authority.             When I was yet in college people tend to ask me what degree am I taking and as I say to them philosophy they begin to nod in impression to hear a term that for them seemed difficult but a crucial follow up question, “what will be your job?” Maybe yes that is one good qu