tags: Southeast Asian culture

2007

June

2007 Jun 5

binding energy

(revised from ”Cultural Origin of Dualism?”)

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2007 Jun 5

on gods and spirits

(revised from ”Re: response to victor & malaki)

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2007 Jun 15

bathala

I don’t know how this managed to elude me for so long, and I don’t really know what prompted me to look this up. Somehow I had stumbled upon the word kairos, which up to now I had merely thought of as the high-school retreat that my high school, along with many Catholic high schools, has seniors participate in. At my school, it wasn’t mandatory, so I never went. I hear that it can be quite life-changing and that it’s very touchy-feely. There insider motto is “Live the Fourth.” Since the Kairos retreat is three days long, I have been told that “the Fourth” means the fourth day, which basically means that one’s life should be lived as an extension of the Kairos experience.

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2007 Jun 15

lord of the universe?

I also wonder where exactly my last name comes from. It’s a really unique name, and pretty much anyone who has it is almost certainly related to me somehow.

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