• Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
• Student : Yes, sir.
• Professor: So, you believe in GOD?
• Student : Absolutely, sir.
• Professor : Is GOD good?
• Student : Sure.
• Professor: Is GOD all powerful?
• Student : Yes.
• Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
• (Student was silent.)
• Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
• Student : Yes.
• Professor: Is satan good?
• Student : No.
• Professor: Where does satan come from?
• Student : From … GOD …
• Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
• Student : Yes.
• Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
• Student : Yes
• Professor: So who created evil ?
• (Student did not answer.)
• Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
• Student : Yes, sir.
• Professor: So, who created them ?
• (Student had no answer.)
• Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
• Student : No, sir.
• Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
• Student : No , sir.
• Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smell your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
• Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
• Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
• Student : Yes.
• Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
• Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
• Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
• Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
• Professor: Yes.
• Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
• Professor: Yes.
• Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
• (The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)
• Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
• (There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
• Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
• Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
• Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
• Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
• Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
• Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
• Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
• Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
• Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
• (The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
• Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
• (The class was in uproar.)
• Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
• (The class broke out into laughter.)
• Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
• (The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
• Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
• Student : That is it sir… Exactly ! The link between man and GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
• That student was Albert Einstein.

Kanina, pupunta sana akong Callbox (magpapasa ng resumé). Eh mga 8pm na yun at sa ganung oras bihira nalang may papasok na pedicab dito sa subd kaya napagdesisyunan kong dumaan nalang sa may shortcutan. Mula sa kabilang subd kasi may daanan papunta sa highway. Narrow lang sya pero pwede na rin daanan, tsaka mga “iskwater” ang mga nakatira dun e.

Nung papasok na ko sa may eskinita, may lalaking sumunod sakin. Pinabayaan ko lang naman. Tapos mga 15meters na yung nalakad ko nakasunod pa rin sya. Sabi ko sa sarili ko, “okay, baka dun sya nakatira malapit sa labasan” kaya nagpatuloy lang ako sa paglalakad. Tapos nung medyo malapit na ko sa may final na likuan, nakasunod pa rin sya! O.O naririnig ko kasi yung footsteps nya. Sabi ko sa sarili ko, “tangina dapat maghanda na ko ng sarili kong self-defense!” After kasi ng final na liko, bukod sa narrow yung daanan, madilim pa at yung ilaw nasa bandang gitna pa. Eh mga 15-17meters pa ang distance na lalakarin ko bago ako makalabas sa highway. Pero di ako nagpapahalata. Kunwari cool lang.

Tapos nung liliko na tlga ako, at napansin kong nakasunod pa rin tlga sya, lumingon na ko. Dalawang beses pa para makita ko nang maayos yung mukha. Buti nalang may ilaw malapit dun kaya nakita ko tlga ang mukha nya. Nakatingin sya sakin. O.O

Tapos nung nakaliko na ko, pinaandar ko yung flash light sa phone ko para makita ko ang dinadaanan ko. Nakita kong may isang tao mga 10-12meters mula sakin. Sabi ko sa sarili ko, “shit baka kasama nya ‘to at pagtulungan nila ako huhu”. That time nagpray na ko. Medyo binilisan ko ang paglalakad. Hanggang sa malapit na tlga ako sa taong yun. Parang may sinisilip sya sa kabilang side ng dingding. Halos matanggal na yung ulo nya sa leeg nya e. lol. Yung height ng wall mga 5ft lang naman. Magkakilala nga sila kasi binati sya nung nakasunod sakin ang sabi sa kanya, “huy ano’ng ginagawa mo dyan? Para kang magnanakaw sa ginagawa mo. Haha.” Lalo akong kinabahan. O.O tapos pagkadaan ko sa harap nya sinabihan nya ko, “magandang gabi miss” pero yung sagot ko di clear. Parang tawa na “good evening din”. HAHAHAHAHAH. Tapos hanggang sa nakalabas na ko sa highway. Dirediretso lang lakad ko hanggang sa ilalim ng streetlight. Tsaka kakilala rin kasi ng family namin yung nakatira sa bahay na sa may labasan tlga.

Tapos habang nagbabantay ako ng jeep, dumaan yung silip-guy. Parang nagmamadali tapos panay lingon. Hinayaan ko lang. Ang tagal, wala pang jeep. Maya2x naman, dumaan yung sunod-guy. Hinayaan ko rin syempre. Tapos biglang tumawag si Angela (sya yung kasama kong magpapasa ng resumé). Sabi nya di na daw tuloy kasi yung sa gabi daw exam at interview nlng. So ayun. Balik ako sa bahay. Buti nlng di pa ko nakasakay ng jeep. XD

Dun ulit ako dumaan. Lingon2x muna ako para siguruhin kung may nakasunod sakin. At safe naman akong nakauwi ng bahay. Shet tlga. Nagpapasalamat ako sa Diyos dahil di Nya ko pinabayaan. T.T 🙏👼