blackshama's commentary on Philippine issues

A metal is mined from the ground. For example  Iron was mined and it gave rise to the Iron age when people used iron for making tools rather than bronze. But before that copper was mined first and relatively soft copper allowed people to master metallurgy. It's alloy with tin, bronze was harder and has more uses than copper and it brought forth the Bronze age in human history. The use of iron came much later.  Iron was softer than bronze but required more advanced "smithy" technologies. However it was in more supply and it replaced the bronze technologies in what historians call the Bronze Age collapse. Homer's "The Iliad" describes metaphorically what this collapse involved. The mining of minerals surely caused a technological revolution in the time when humans shifted from neolithic hunter gatherer and incipient agriculture to a more permanent agricultural state. And the need for mineral resources grows unabated as we come up with more technologies. ...

Contrary to what Miriam the Theologian says, even non Christian religions view Hell as a place in this case a  wok! If Miriam Defensor Santiago were Pope. She would have declared as infallible dogma that there isn't any Hell and if there was, then nobody's there! But that's not what the Pope John Paul II inspired Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) says in article  1033 "T he teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire."  The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs." The CCC remains the official catechism for the Catholic Church.  I suppose Miriam the Theologian studied this book in the Maryhill School of Theology on E Rodriguez Avenue, Quezon ...

In the wake of the Watergate scandals, a 1970s issue of the American satirical Mad Magazine had a spoof of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" lampooning American senators, congressmen and the would have been impeached President Richard Nixon but Nixon resigned soon after thus sending the unelected Gerald Ford to the White House.  The"usual Gang of idiots" did not change an iota of the comic opera script but had hilarious cartoons imagining what possible punishment would fit the crime! My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment! One of the punishments meted was subjecting the Watergate crew to an endless loop of the tapes. Now of course no sane American reader would SERIOUSLY consider subjecting Dick Nixon to an endless loop of the Watergate tapes and the famous "I...