Each person has his own set of beliefs to which his personal philosophy will work on. Some may agree while others contradict it. But while that is a given in this crazy world you just have to respect a person for what he believes in even if it may seem awkward and weird. In short, it is not about determining if it is right or wrong. It is about holding true to your word on what you believe in and caring less on logical definitions since in most cases, the real reason would lie on the fact that they have personal supporting facts to go by it.

One fact here is experience. While we all know the standard philosophies that we read and are advised of, it remains that there will always be loopholes that may differ our overall understanding. Among them include rare instances where one’s philosophy is entirely different from another. This has been proven. Like for example in business, it does not always follow that constant advertising will reap you attention. You have to look further at the crowd you are showing the ad to. If they don’t respond then you have just thrown out millions of dollars.

In personal instances, being around and showing a person how much you care for them cannot always be appreciated. In fact, it has been proven that the only time a person is appreciated is when they are gone. Late as it may be, but that is reality we all experience.

Personal philosophies differ each day. It is just a matter of respecting them for their own separate reasons for believing in them that way.

People who stand up for something may not necessarily make sense for others. It all boils down to upbringing and logic. The manner of living a person does may seem unorthodox for people who are accustomed to the standard way of life. But if you look around, the success people for instance, you will find that people living differently have made successful moves as far as their lives are concerned.

We cannot force people to believe in our philosophies. To them, we seem like crazy persons. But while many would laugh or downgrade you at first, it is quite funny to think how most of them would turn around after some years, forget about the past and look up to you as if they believed you from day one. In short, standing up for something may lead to you being a “somebody” in the future and this is regardless on whether you are pertaining to career, business or stature.

Weird as it may, the best way to define this kind of philosophy is trust and proving your worth. People have their share of being famous later on in life even if others would feel that they are crazy and don’t fit in. Perhaps you don’t fit in because you are part of the elite people who are different from the normal person. But the price to pay for it is becoming ignorant of the normal society. It is choice of sticking to your principle or giving up on it because others force you to.

Each person will have his or her own share of philosophical beliefs as far as principles are concerned. Once they are exposed or find themselves with friends or peers, there will be times that they will be tempted to alter some of these principles since they want to belong. As much as possible don’t resort to that. While it is true that you may have differences with other people, it remains that you have to stick to your own principles and values. If they work for you since you started believing in them, then why change them?

This personal philosophy covers a wide area for anyone. It may entail business decisions to personal ones. While you may find the beliefs of others as effective for themselves, remember that the same may not necessarily hold true to yourself. It is all about how you approach it. Personal philosophies may vary but are really meant to be unique for anyone these days. That is simply something that has to be put in mind.

For some, doing this may go as far as affecting relationships and socialization. People will look at you in a different light which may not necessarily be favorable. This should not bother you as a person. Just because someone else disagrees or is not at all comfortable with your philosophy means that you have to change for them. Even married couples experience this. While some would change in the initial parts of their union, you will find that they eventually fall back to the known principles that they had initially been known for. Personal philosophies are simply hard to alter especially once they are inherited and gotten accustomed to.

One thing that most businessmen take note of these days is that they have to be presentable and project an image that is worthy of making clients believe in them. When you are in a business meeting and are aiming to solicit investments or provide business, you just have to dress right for the occasion. Do not wear jeans or a simple shirt. Try a semi-formal attire and perhaps you may place the meeting more relevant than what others may perceive.

This is perhaps something that has eluded some salesmen as far as closing deals these days. There are people who just don’t get it. When you are doing business, it already takes a lot to try and convince them. If people who are not dressed professionally have a hard time convincing people, then how would you even try to convince them if you put on rugged clothes?

Take for example network marketing. Obviously it is something that people (particularly in the Philippines) only believe in because of the earnings. But if there is something to blame, it would be the marketers. Just last week I was invited to a supposed business opportunity to which I was surprised it was another network marketing gimmick.

The setting was the same as usual. The product is Goji, a health product that is being distributed through network marketing. While I admire the product, it is the presentor, a yuppie at that who claims to be earning Php 200,000.00 a month.

Seriously, if you are earning that much, you could have at least worn something decent like a long-sleeved shirt or any semi-formal attire. At his age, early 20’s it takes so much to convince people to be under a young turk. While others waited since it was the profit schedule being shown, I had to excuse myself from the “scam” of sorts. The next time around, you can almost figure out networking scheme presenters just don’t dress professionally especially in the Philippines. What a waste of time!

Ever since the dastardly act of people who wanted to become famous and give credence for their cause (who were responsible for 9-11 among some), Islam has received a ton of accusations as being the promoter of violence and death all over the world. Throw into the mix a little of the Communist ideals and you have a world that is in turmoil that could end at the press of a button somebody else made and designed for some utterly futile purpose (the end of all life on earth). Is this hatred well founded on fact, of is it another mere manifestation of the problems the US and the rest of the developed world has been suffering as their respective societies have become so confused about their national identity?
In the US, discrimination has been in existence ever since people started to flock there as the land of opportunity and promise. Where certain individuals foster hatred towards others who are not like them, them being physically and ideologically different from themselves. If that is the case, then discrimination has never left the land of the Free and the Brave as many incidents of racial discrimination has shown. China, another of the remaining Cold War super powers has been maintaining their control over their people to some extent whilst their gusto of the cash that flows from the West. Suppressing and controlling all and everything they choose as they have since they became a Communist state.
Iran has defied the world which is represented by their total defiance at efforts to bring their nuclear technology to standards and disclosure that is at par with widely accepted standards. With them acknowledging the fact that they have the ability to use their weapons should they be threatened or attacked fuels speculation that they have been working under the radar of world monitoring agencies with regards to their nuclear program.
Islam and Molsems are merely victims of a world in constant turmoil that makes itself visible as one under control. In truth, there is no single governing body that has control over anything and everyone that can say it has everything under control. So why do we claim and say that everything’s fine and normal? to give each other a sense of order and peace that is the arena which philosophy tends to fill in. The body of thought gives life a purpose and a reason to exist hence the need to study humanity and the ways by which it has survived past times. Its a very vague yet necessary task, to give the rest of us a sense of control and meaning that defies all other explanations, explaining the unexplained and unexplainable. Why does the rest of humanity hate something they do not understand? That’s the question and not the answer so start pondering.

Some students have been fighting for their ability/right to carry concealed guns in school (to date is only allowed in one state in all of the US) and they say this is necessitated by the utter inability of law to prevent violence in schools/colleges.
I’d beg to differ at that point and as a parent, that may be the craziest idea anyone can cite as a solution to the gun problem. A gun is a piece of metal which sadly has the ability to take another life, it’s the man who does the killing and not the gun and that being the case is a very very difficult point to explain. All the psychological exams in the world cannot say when and what causes a peaceful loving man to suddenly take a weapon designed to keep the peace and use it to kill somebody else.
Kids with guns are kids with uncontrollable rage and with all the open ends a gun is still a gun and a kid is still a kid (yes even you college students are kids as I was once one).
A school is a place for learning and not for self-defense! Whatever the constitution or law may state, guns all over is an invitation for violence and that’s a fact (what about kids who are related to gangs, should they be given guns too just because they passed a gun concealment training course? Or what about the psychologically unstable kid who seems all normal to everyone who turns nuts at some form of trigger causing violence tendencies to suddenly come alive as with the Virginia Tech incident!)

That is a question each and every parent asks every time their kids go to school, or do they. The recent gun related incidents in several US schools and elsewhere around the world, have prompted legislation that makes gun ownership a bit tad harder but there are always loopholes as the incidents themselves have shown. Guns have been in the blood of all Americans since the Constitution includes a phrase that states, each and every American had the right to bear arms and it was interpreted literally as is. Gun control which has been in place ever since crooks started to tote guns and so law enforcers had to catch up and started to carry their own (for protection). Does the world need guns? Ask yourself, and you’ll say no but get involved or have somebody you know involved in gun related incidents and you’ll suddenly have a change of heart (most probably).
All of us have been exposed to a society that has been made and shaped by weapons of all shapes and sizes and all of them were invented for self-preservation from other humans. Guns is a way of saying don’t mess with me or I’ll mess with you and it’s not a very comforting idea to see one in public for it always raises your blood pressure at mere sight. The US has had a long and hard history of gun related violence and so has the rest of the world but the basic and main idea of bearing arms has been lost in translation so to speak in all the violence and crime that has been related to and blamed on these weapons of choice. They are small, deadly and easy to carry so what else could you ask for in a personal protection measure, others carrying the same weapons! Paranoia is the game and if society cannot deal with the problem, then should we allow society to take care of itself by allowing everybody to carry guns? You be the Judge!

The moves of scientists to decode and unravel the secrets of the human genome have long been debated for the ethical implications of such scientific actions aims to discredit some validity of the mystery of life. If you look at the religious explanation for life, it was created by a supreme being that deemed us as the dominant creature of this earth. Scientifically, they say that we are the result of millions of years of evolution whereby we have evolved from lesser creatures such as microbes who developed into ever complex organisms leading to us, Homo sapiens or the human race.
This is why Darwin was scorned by the church when he came up with the idea that people evolved from chimps and everybody knows that he was scorned then but praised now as one of the most prominent minds to ever grace this earth. If that were the case, then the separation between religion and science should always be defined and infinite meaning morality and other issues are not to influence the definition of either as time progresses. Philosophers know that people have the ability to bend the rules should a need for it be found and that does not say that the bending has been going on for as long as man has survived on this earth. Even the existence of God has been challenged again and again.
Then when does the poking and experimenting with genetics and the ability to add or subtract traits that allows plants to become more productive, animals to have better health and more. The promises of genetics are good indeed, growing organs from cells rather than transplants and the lifelong drugs to keep the immune system from rejecting the transplanted body part. But how far can we go before it becomes morally wrong, a whole human being? Life is filled with mysteries and it still is, that is the main driving force for such scientific research. Let us place this in simpler terms, would you rather have a flower opening and showing off its full glory and beauty or the opening and closing is due to molecular actions that results in a process that makes reproduction for plants to commence? You choose your rules, your world, and your life!

First, our sincerest condolences to the families left behind by the recent earthquake in China that has left more than 12,000 dead and the toll is expected to continue rising due to more areas that are still cut off but the strong quake. Just a quote, for I just can’t seem to notice the still crazy way the Chinese government has in terms of propaganda which it still uses as a main tool for spreading it’s word and keeping it’s hold on its people. Get a handful of photos from the State news agency and you see soldiers ready to go to battle with the search and rescue, soldiers rescuing people and soldiers marching on their way to help those buried in the quake. What about the millions of miserable people who are out there miserable without anything left to live in or eat? What about full aerial shot of the areas which are affected that may give the rest of the world a full view of the magnitude the disaster that is developing. People left to fend for themselves without regional disaster supplies and equipment to deal with such emergencies hence their leaders live in splendor of the capital city.
The government is getting praise for their swift efforts but as one of the largest economies on earth, shouldn’t people in local areas be trained to deal with such disasters. Imagine the worst hit areas, only one line of communication was left that allowed military planners and disaster experts in Beijing to know the magnitude, one government issued satellite phone and that was it. All the areas surrounding the major city center in the worst hit province has little known about their residents?
Focus more on the people and not on the rescuers and their efforts, to hell with the lavish parades as the Olympic torch makes its way through the country. Pull cash from the lavish displays and security in the torch relay and rush aid and people to the stricken areas. That should be China’s priority. In a country where the government is still trying to get used to money from the outside world, corruption still abounds. The collapsed school buildings are surely made of shabby materials and will surely be riddled with holes left by corruption in the ranks of the local officials and civil engineers who have approved the construction of such weak structures in such an earthquake prone area. When will they learn that the people come first and children are the future? Children are the worst hit with schools and other structures collapsing like matchsticks pan caking one after the other, a six story building reduced to a pile of rubble two meters thick?!! China has a lot of growing up to do in terms of people and with money pouring in from the rest of the world; the Chinese government is still pockmarked with corruption even with their displays of stiff penalties for criminals which goes to show that old tactics don’t work anymore.

The events of the cyclone in Myanmar has become one of the worst humanitarian disasters of recent times with people rotting in canals and rice paddies next to survivors who would surely die of disease unless aid comes fast. The military junta allows some aid to come in, secueing them and marking their names onto boxes as they hand them out in areas nearby the capital where there is little or no much effect from the cyclone. The suspicious eye on volunteers requesting for visas from the government as people continue to die. The UN not having any say on what to do, they say they can meddle under the rights of the many, but with many Western nations tied up in wars somewhere in the middles east and elesewhere in the world, no one is taking a firm stance. Only words and not enough actions.
Myanmar is considered to be one of the poorest nations in the world, ruled by generals and their minions of soldiers weho control the country and its riches, the people have little to go on. The disaster magnifies their aim to help the people, cantering efforts around glorifying and maintainin gtheir positions. The living standards in the country are poor compared to other developing countries that share their economic status. The country is rich in natural resources that are all taken by the military for their own self-preservation.
Food aid is gathered form depots and fresh rice taken by the military leaders, giving the rotten government stores to the survivors who say not even the dogs will eat them. The government has to open up and fast if they are to save the millions of people that are now facing horrible conditions. Control of the situation is their priority which even got to the point where all Western reporters or citizens were rounded up and detained to be expelled from the country. Soldiers commanding the population that they are not to say anything to Westerners amplify the public outcry. The country may be poor and the people much worse, but where is the human compassion from the rest of the world, why doesn’t the United Nations issue directives with respect to aid and military forces of member countries to go in and take care of a mess their own government can’t even handle? Politics is still the key and the hypocritical deafness of all to the cries of people who are suffering come second to world order. Even decorated and well respected people forms the UN are denied entry to manage the mass delivery of aid to stricken areas. Doctors without Borders has been denied visas along with many aid agencies whose people are just itching to get their hands into the thick of things to help the people of Myanmar. Why not do away with politics and just let the global community do what they can to get people back on track with their lives? You hold the key and we as a people of this earth must make out stand known, that people and lives come first!