About

The person behind this blog is a struggling law student, a part-time writer, a moviegoer, an individualist, an Objectivist, and a book lover. When asked to describe myself, I usually give this personal, patented line: “I’m young, cool, and confident.” I actually used this line when I answered a particular question about four years ago, when I joined our campus editorial examination, and won. Yes, I served as editor in chief of my campus’ weekly organ for two years. Don’t ask me how it went through… being a campus editor, I tell you, was a tough, no, a hellish, experience!

Now it’s another chapter of my life, as I am currently pursuing my law studies, and again it’s another tough experience. It’s not easy to study law, especially when given with terror, genocidal professors. Darn, I hate ‘em! I write blogs whenever I feel the passion inside. Really, writing is passion. You cannot write if you’re not interested in what you’re writing. My blogs are the testimony to this statement.

I’m no longer ashamed and afraid to tell people that I’m an atheist. I grew up as a church boy, and I can say that I’m more knowledgeable about the contents of the bible than the average Catholics. When someone told me that “there’s God,” I replied by saying “You’re smart enough to believe in God.” No one can ever prove a negative, a thing or an entity that does not exist. Most people say that most scientists don’t believe in the existence of God because of their intellectual “arrogance.” I beg to disagree. Their not believing in an entity that doesn’t exist only shows their humility and admission that their capacity to acquire knowledge is only limited. It means that they’re humble enough to say that they can’t prove a negative.

I am forever inspired by the following quotation from my favorite book Atlas Shrugged: “In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.”

About my concept of morality, you can check it here.

For those interested, you may join our Causes/groups on Facebook:

Ayn Rand Fans in the Philippines

Capitalism for Philippines

Reproductive Health Bill: The Road to Serfdom

For those who read, loved, and reacted to the articles on this site, thanks for paying a visit. For those who hated it, get real! I always tell them, “check your premises…” When dealing with commenters, these are my rules:

  • I don’t want to deal with hippies!
  • I’m not called upon to argue a negative!
  • I have no desire to answer or argue the impossible!
  • I totally ignore rude, bigot and irrational commenters!
  • If you have any question or something to argue about, do it in a nice way!
  • I don’t want to deal with anonymous commenters!
  • From now on, I will erase comments with evil agenda!
  • I will tell those who have estimated their intelligence and who’d judge me on an unfounded claim: “Don’t read my blogs!”
  • I don’t have any patience with people who’re just plain stupid and who miserably believe they make sense! (I believe I have only a limited knowledge and I’m grateful for the people who’re willing to share thoughts and views with me.)
  • Just be rational. I can sense if you’re simply trying to waste my time.
  • I don’t have any interest in arguing or exchanging ideas and opinions with “context-droppers,” meaning those who drop or maliciously disregard the context of what I’m saying. Once I detected that a commenter is engaging in “context dropping,” there’s no reason for me to prolong his/her stupidity or agenda.
  • Hippies, bigots and plain stupid are now allowed to comment!

Since I’m the exclusive owner of this site, I have the right to ban rude, silly, stupid, bigot, irrational and insane comments on my blogs. If you have complaints and if you think you have some rational arguments to adduce, do it in a nice, rational, civil and sane way, and of course, with your real name and even photo (real name is required). I will only entertain questions or reactions by commenters (with real name) stated in a courteous and civil manner. You don’t have to drop your manners and throw up your own idiocies. Idiots have no room in this blogsite. Anyone will have the right to view my blogs and comment thereon, but such a right does not include idiocy, bigotry, insanity and stupidity.  Any banned comment will be replaced with the image below:

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6 Responses leave one →
  1. 2009 January 28
    John permalink

    Good to hear an Objectivist Filipino. We are incredibly few!

  2. 2009 February 6

    I am sort of an Objectivist filipino as well. Sort of because I like clumping Objectivist thought with Hayek and Rawls (or at least my shallow understanding of Hayek and Rawls).

    Hey FVDB- I’ve been a big fan of this blog, as well as caffeine sparks’ blog. Caffeine Sparks wants land reform. I dont- I think it is collectivist at its core. Can you write something about it?

    Thanks! More power to you, your work, and your law studies.

  3. 2009 March 3

    Blog pick of the week – this blog is one of the best so far. Thanks for the share. We will be your avid fan.

  4. 2009 May 8

    Hope you didn’t mine. Thanks!

  5. 2009 October 24

    Since I’m the exclusive owner of this site, I have the right to ban rude, silly, stupid, bigot, irrational and insane comments on my blogs.

    Thank you for pointing this out.

    I will be careful with my words and follow the flow of the stream towards the direction that is acceptable to your taste.

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