Oroquieta City Fiesta Parade

A king is a symbol of the nation's unity seeing themselves as better dressed, better looking, center of attention and most virtuous of all.

Rituals provide means in which they can express their feelings and their sense of great religious occasions.

Body and spirit moving in unison in a dance to appease the spirits in a traditional and romantic ritual  associated with monarchy.

What we need are good people's good governance by imitating God. Kings, absolute or constitutional, and dictators  have provided and can provide good governance without losing the common touch.  

A long time ago, the semi-divine force found in various emblems as the sword, the orb, the scepter and the crown means absolute power delivered from the altar of God by his servants to the king who by virtue of that, may imprison or behead anybody without trial, tax people without their knowledge, or make peace or war without the permission of the people.

The king is the absolute master, above the law and everybody fell on their knees before addressing him. Certain countries having Absolute Monarchies like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Oman, Qatar and Swaziland and Great Britain with 29 others having constitutional monarchy retain their rulers that seem permanently established and more are coming according to the signs including Royal Families that appears homely, good natured, friendly, considering themselves glorified and idealized, better dressed, better looking, richer, wiser, and popularly virtuous.

Why does a bride like dressing up in white satin gowns embellished with colorful accents that go with it? It is no doubt partly for the show and also because the wedding is the crucial event in her life and those of millions like her. She is promising herself for life to the man she loves. Signing at the bottom of the civil register does not adequately express this but a religious ceremony and ritual does. Human beings feel that serious emotion and important event should be bodily expressed with the spirit intertwined in the ritual that fully satisfies.

Modern life lack so much that people feel and experience certain amount of frustrations and as a consequence they readily join any club or troupe which involves them in dressing up in some way however unbecoming and performing ritual acts however undignified. They respond more to the romantic and traditional ritual associated with monarchy in which the church can better demonstrate.

Hero worship is innate in humans and if there is no provision for that like a king which history have proven to be healthy as Christ The King, they have a substitute like Hitler.

In a modern democratic society and setting, this kind of autocratic monarchy is completely out of harmony except in the entertainment realm of a fiesta or other occasions and certain exceptions, we have the right to choose our government and get rid of corrupt ones as we please.

OROQUIETA CITY, PHILIPPINES (MY BIRTHPLACE)

 

"WE DON'T SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE, WE SEE THEM AS WE ARE."  -A. Nin

SOMEWHERE HIGH ON THOSE MOUNTAINS GROW A LOT OF WILD STRAWBERRIES THAT HAS IN THEM POWERFUL ANTIOXIDANTS THAT HEALS ALL MALADIES THAT SOME VERY EXPENSIVE ANTIBIOTICS CANNOT - AND ITS HERE IN OROQUIETA CITY.  

 SUBANONS THAT LIVE IN THE VERY FAR MOUNTAINS OF OROQUIETA  CAN HEAL  MYSTERIOUS AILMENTS THAT ARE HARD TO DIAGNOSE. MAYBE GENETIC DEFECTS OR OTHER DISORDERS,  AND IF LEFT UNTREATED, COULD BE A FRIGHTHENING  THING TO LIVE WITH.  THEY (SUBANONS) COULD MINIMIZE DISEASE BURDENS AND IMPROVE A QUALITY OF LIFE  WHICH TO MANY CRITICS MIGHT BE QUACKERY BUT LEFT MOST WHO HAPPEN TO BE WITNESSES - AMAZED FOR THE FIRST TIME.

 

"MOST OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE KEPT ON TRYING WHEN THERE SEEMED TO HAVE NO HOPE AT ALL." D. Carnegie

 

"OUR LIFE'S JOURNEY OF SELF DISCOVERY IS NOT A STRAIGHT LINE RISE FROM ONE LEVEL OF CONCIOUSNESS TO ANOTHER INSTEAD IT IS A SERIES OF STEEP CLIMBS AND FLAT PLATEAUS, THEN FURTHER CLIMBS. EVEN THOUGH WE ALL APPROACH THE JOURNEY FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, CERTAIN OF THE JOURNEY'S CHARACTERISTICS ARE COMMON TO ALL OF US." -S. Wilde

 

"THE TRUE VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CONSIST NOT OF SEEKING NEW LANDSCAPES, BUT 

 HAVING NEW EYES."  -M. Maltz

FROM THIS FOTO...

UP TO THIS, SHOW  THE CLEANEST RIVER WATER IN THE PHILIPPINES THAT IS IN OROQUIETA CITY.

("IF YOU LOOK TO OTHERS FOR FULFILLMENT, YOU WILL NEVER BE FULFILLED. IF YOUR HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON MONEY, YOU WILL NEVER BE HAPPY WITH YOURSELF. BE CONTENT WITH WHAT YOU HAVE; REJOICE IN THE WAY THINGS ARE. WHEN YOU REALIZE THERE IS NOTHING LACKING, THE WORLD BELONGS TO YOU."  -L. Tzu)

  

"THE HISTORY OF FREE MEN  IS NEVER REALLY WRITTEN BY CHANCE BUT BY CHOICE; THEIR CHOICE!" -D. Eisenhower

THESE PICTURES SHOWING  SHORES...

 

UP TO THIS IS WHAT SOME USED TO BE IN SOME RECENT PAST. CHANGE WAS SO SWIFT SO AS IT TURNED INTO THIS IN ONLY A FEW WEEKS TIME.

("MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, I BELEIVE IT'S OUR DECISIONS, NOT THE CONDITIONS OF OUR LIVES, THAT DETERMINE OUR DESTINY.")

THAT HABITATS WERE LOST FOR THIS DELICACY THAT I USED TO HAVE  EVERYTIME THE TIDE WAS LOW. WHAT A VERY HIGH PRICE TO PAY FOR PROGRESS!

INCLUDING THIS

MAYBE BY LEAVING FOR ANOTHER VENUE WE COULD FIND SOMETHING HOPEFULLY BRIGHT ...

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"IF YOU WISH TO TRAVEL FAR AND FAST, TRAVEL LIGHT. TAKE OFF ALL YOUR ENVIES, YOUR JEALOUSIES, UN-FORGIVENESS, SELFISHNESS AND FEARS." G. Clark

AT LAST, WE ARE IN ANOTHER VENUE BUT WHERE ARE THE COCONUT TREES THAT USED TO DARKEN THIS PIECE OF LAND WITH THEIR SHADE TURNING DAYTIME INTO NIGHT?

"A LIFE LIVED WITH INTEGRITY EVEN IF IT LACKS THE TRAPPINGS OF FAME AND FORTUNE IS A SHINNING STAR IN WHOSE LIGHT OTHERS MAY FOLLOW IN THE YEARS TO COME." -D. Waitly

RUEL AND KRISHAN

THE BEST SECURITY BLANKET CHILDREN CAN HAVE ARE PARENTS WHO RESPECT EACH OTHER.

IF YOU CAN, HELP OTHERS; IF YOU CANNOT DO THAT, AT LEAST DO NOT HARM THEM.

THE OLD BELIEVE EVERYTHING, THE MIDDLE-AGED SUSPECT EVERYTHING, THE YOUNG KNOW EVERYTHING,  -O Wilde