This serves as my Little Red Book, I guess.
1. Theology without Christ is like love without humanity.
2. Why is asking better than answering? Because asking makes you a bit smarter, while answering makes you feel afraid that you're a bit more ignorant than the one who asks you.
3. Vindication necessitates victimization.
4. Love is not best symbolized as a rose bravely given by the best of lovers, but as a cross weakly embraced by the unworthiest.
5. God's will was never meant for the equality of men, but for the humanization of equality.
6. Life was never meant for rest. It was meant for action, for suffering, and for patience.
7. If you can entertain the impossibility of goodness, why not its possibility?
8. To believe is to understand the essence of mystery, and then to set foot on the invisible bridge.
(2009 Copyright by Aramis Maximilien Faria)
9. How can love be true if it is blind? (2009 Copyright Aramis Maximilien Faria)
10. If we are to believe in both (or even either) evolution and creation, we must realize that political and social equality is an illusion. evolution dictates that no two species, and even individuals are alike… to deny the complexity of these beings by categorizing them into political entities is to engage in deceptive politics. ruling one is not ruling all. creation assumes as moral ground that everything was created in and according to a specific order. harboring beliefs of equality among mankind is to deny that order. I am not against the good intentions of these equalities, i just dont find them holistic or scientific enough to convince me.
11. To understand amorism is to treat love not only as an operation (cupola), but as object. How can we know love? How can we use it? But these questions also demand subjective participation; otherwise it will be all for naught.
12. An amoristic epistemology would require an integrality of operations, with both subject and object of our perception and information in a complex interplay of validation.
13. Love is a metaphysics veiled by misunderstanding.
14. But isn’t our knowledge our personal truth? Ignorance is the limit of this intrinsic beauty which we call truth, and I have yet to stretch out this limit that I may finally love myself.
15. But what is a soul but a person’s ability to love? And that ability IS a life of its own.
(2009 Copyright by Aramis Faria)
16. Religion must not be petrified into a set of doctrines and an attitude of polemic; for it is a subjective love in a world which can only be objectively perceived, if sanity is indeed treasured here.
17. Grief done together is more than just sorrow; it’s a prayer.
18. People fear doomsdays because they have never learned how to die. Had they known the art of dying from their religions, they would have appreciated life all the more, and would have been ready to let it go. Love of life requires its vulnerability… and our Savior showed the way.
19. Halloween, if seen in a positive light, is a mockery of fear. But such a mockery can lead to pride, which is the other side of the coin of ignorance. On the other hand, All Saints’ Day is about the triumph over fear, a celebration of the possibility of men to conquer fear through Christ. In heaven, with the saints, there is no fear, only God who is love.
20. Even the Bible can be distorted by biases! What happens to the world where everybody is god?
21. ACAT [Llanos] rocks with his thought-provoking videos. I wonder when ABS-CBN and GMA will follow suit in delivering us quality presentations instead of their shitty mediocre bunch of sitcoms and narcissistic drones of showbiz.
22. Some people object to worshiping God in the appearance of a wafer, but they find themselves comfortable in worshiping God as a bunch of paper. Ironic, funny maybe, but true.
23. Most religious conversions today are not due to doctrinal confusion, but our inability to grasp the reality of mystery. This inability springs from our inability or even unwillingness to love the unlovable.
24. If I defend myself, it is only because I have been a fool for Christ first.
25. Behind my camera is a chimaera on a bind.
26. To look beyond the heavens is to be like God; but why look up there when you can drink his blood?
27. All men love, and through this action all men worship (Omnia amant ergo adorant).
(2006 Copyright of Aramis M. Faria)
28. The Bible is not a dictionary of terms, nor a tradition (lit., a handing-over) of culture. If we are to look for cultural norms in the Bible, we would still be wearing AD 30 clothes, speaking Hebrew & Greek instead of King James’ English, and abhorring electrical gadgets. If the Bible is to be shared among all (in Greek, katholos), we must not be imposing with the Roman/British-American influence.
29. The Bible is not a history book; it will never discuss the tangible, as most Christians would expect. To take it literally especially in secular affairs is to abuse, not use, it; to look for everything in the Bible, especially trifles — holy or profane they may be — is stupid. It demands not only faith, but intelligence. As one believer put it, some people are not ready to be fed meat; they’ll have to do with milk.
30. A beat is nothing more than the bread of a reporter; its difficulty is his butter.
31. Hope flickers like the light of a candle… we all know that there’s still a wick at the bottom.
32. Man is only human when he struggles to live — and to die for that struggle.
33. People think that life needs them… they’re looking at the glass half-empty.
34. I like the dark because there I can see stars.
35. Exclusiveness is the requisite of inclusiveness, at least as the human perception is concerned.
36.To take the leap of faith is much easier than figuring how to land when you're already falling.
37. Life was always about love... its joys and hopes, its fears and tragedies. Without love, life is only a word.
38.God takes away the people who make me human that I may make something for humanity.
39. To grasp the mysteries of the world and of our propensities is to conquer that animal fear which binds us with the brute and the bouquet.
40.Death seeks not the immortal, but those who fear immortality. For the immortal know the burden of their state, and do not shirk from having to suffer for perpetuity.
41. It's so hard to love!!!! But it's always worth the sacrifice. That's what makes the love so holy, it's in the sacri (holy) ficio (act).
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