A Call for Action

I think its time for some action on our part as subscribers to let Globe Telecom know our grievances. Okay there's the support hotline (2199) which I think most of you like me have been calling up and telling them our present predicament and how terrible their service is. They usually give us their pre-canned reply that everything is being done to fix this problem and they would escalate it. They have been escalating it since May 7 and until now it is the problem of having a slow connection that has been escalating.

Like me most of you have been posting, reading and commenting on blogs that has the Visibility problem as their topic. We have been very patient with Globe Telecoms slow response to our current predicament but until now no solid response has been given to us and even a simple acknowledgment they can't even muster.

I don't know if you will agree with this suggestion but here it is anyway. Let us all meet at Robinson's Pioneer in Mandaluyong and as a group, we would march our way to Globe Telecoms office. I think it is about time that we haul our asses off our seats and take some actions ourselves. That way they will know that we won't take this treatment anymore and we demand some actions on their part. I know someone has suggested it already and was given a negative reply and that is the problem with our country right now all we do is complain but we don't take any action. Why don't we go there and at the very least if we have the numbers we would get notice.

Silent Roman Catholics

I think its about time that I post my reply to Fr. Larry Tan, SDB's question on why us Catholics don't react as loudly and and sometimes violently to what others are saying or doing against Jesus Christ unlike our Muslim brothers with regards to Allah and Muhammad?

One instances he cites as I can recall is Madonna's act on her concert in desecrating the Cross which for us Christians symbolizes Jesus. Compared to what the Muslims reaction to Muhammad being drawn in caricature our silence is eerily silent. Except for a few protestations here and there it is nothing compared to the outrage of the Muslims whenever those they considered sacred are being desecrated from their point of view.

My answer to that is we were raised to be forgiving and ask God for mercy to those who did us and Him wrong. We were raised to LOVE not only God and ourselves but also our enemies, in fact I was taught while studying that the teachings of Jesus can be summarize in one word: LOVE.

We were also taught to be forgiving and in fact in one of Jesus' lectures He was asked how many times should we forgive our brother and he replied seventy time seven. Seventy time seven during those times was a large number or infinite. Quoting the Lord's Prayer "forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sinned against us" it doesn't say there that a prerequisite to forgiving is asking for forgiveness. It is just that we have to forgive those who did us wrong. Before Jesus came we have been doing wrong against God but instead of handing us punishments, He sent his only Son to die on the cross for us. Now if God can do that, who are we not to forgive.

So if we don't react as violently and as loudly as our Muslim brothers, it is because we were born and raised in LOVE.