Science and religion are not at odds.
Science is simply too young to understand.

Medicine, electronics communications, space travel, genetic manipulation…these are the miracles which we tell our children.
These are the miracles we herald as a proof that science will bring us the answer. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle. We concede.

Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonder. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self – worth as human beings has been destroyed. Science proclaims that Planet Earth and its inhabitants are meaningless specks in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident. Even the technology that promises to reunite us, divides us. Each of us now is electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. We are bombarded with violence, division, fracture, and betrayal. Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? Does science hold anything sacred? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses. Science even presumes to rearrange our own DNA. It shatters God’s world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning…and all it finds is more questions.

Scientific growth is exponential. It feeds on itself like a virus. Every breakthrough opens doors for new breakthroughs. Mankind took thousands of years from the wheel to the car. Yet only decades from the car into space. Now we measure scientific progress in weeks. We are spinning out of control. The rift between us grows deeper and deeper, and as religion is left behind, people find themselves in a spiritual void. We cry out for meaning. And believe me, we do cry out. We use UFO’s, engage in channeling, spirit contact, out – of – body experiences, mindquests – all these eccentric ideas that have a scientific veneer, but they are unashamedly irrational . They are the desperate cry of the modern soul, lonely and tormented, crippled by its own enlightenment and its inability to accept meaning in anything removed from technology.

Science, you say, will save us. Science, I say, has destroyed us. Since the days of Galileo, the church has tried to slow the relentless march of science, sometimes with misguided means, but always with benevolent intentions. Even so, the temptations are too great for man to resist. I warn you, look around yourselves. The promises of science have not been kept. Promises of efficiency and simplicity have bred nothing but pollution and chaos. We are fractured and frantic species…moving down a path of destruction.

Who is this God science? Who is the God who offers his people power but no moral framework to tell you how to use that power? What kind of God that gives a child fire but does not warn the child of its dangers? The language of science comes with no signposts about good and bad. Science textbooks tell us how to create a nuclear reaction, and yet they contain no chapter asking us if it is a good or bad idea. To science, I say this. The church is tired. Our resources are dying up from our campaign to be the voice of balance as you plow blindly on in your quest for smaller chips and larger profits. We ask not why you will not govern yourselves, but how can you? Your world moves so fast that if you stop even for an instant to consider the implications of your actions, someone more efficient will whip past you in a blur. So you move on. You proliferate weapons of mass destruction, but it is the Pope who travels the world beseeching the leaders to use restraint. You clone living creatures, but it is the church reminding us to consider moral implications of our actions. You encourage people to interact on phones, video screens, and computers but it is the church who open sits doors and remind us to commune in person as we were meant to do. You even murder unborn babies in the name of research that will save lives. Again, it is the church who points out the fallacy of this reasoning.

All the while, you proclaim the church is ignorant. But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? Show me proof that there is God, you say. I say you use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be a God!

You ask what God look like. I say, where did that question come from? The answers are one and the same. Do you not see God in your science? How can you miss Him! You proclaim that even the slightest change in the force of gravity or the weight of an atom would have rendered our universe a lifeless mist rather than our magnificent sea of heavenly bodies, and yet you fail to see God’s hand in this?

- from Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Note: I ommited some nonsense parts of this speech.

Our teenage years are times to empty ourselves of
childhood fantasies and to start filling it with youthful
idealism. Although I noticed some innocence in you, still
you were on your feet to stand up against difficulties, for
they create for you opportunities to gain a variety of experiences
that you so need for your personal development. The road to happiness
and good social relationships starts with knowing yourself -
your strenghts and weaknesses, talents and capabilities,
and desires and limitations. And when you attain all of these,
you gain confidence to face the real world, and to become you.

And take note, you don’t need to have ticket to that road,
all youneed to do is to be true to yourself.

-Raymor   

Walang taong bobo, pero merong mga tanga: mga taong meron ngang isip pero di naman marunong mag-isip.

Goodbye doesn’t mean ending, but it’s just a new beginning.

Iba talaga ang feeeling pag meron kang girlfriend, but sometimes when things are not going right, and you feel uncomfortable with her, for me, the only choice is to just let go.

As I am starting my walk through the wilderness of the metropolis, unti - unti kong napagtatanto na hindi lang pala sya ang dapat kong mahalin till the end; and that I don’t feel comfortable with her anymore, isama pa yung long-distance relationship namin. I know na hindi naging maganda yung naging pagtrato ko sa’yo since I came here, but I still hope na maiintindihan mo ko. Marami pang darating na mga opportunities para sa atin. Till here, hope you’ll always be my friend…forever. 

Goodbye.