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A comment I posted at a Philippine forum that discussed about phenomenons that my occur in this planet as 2012 approaches:

Being skeptical may be beneficial, but it remains to be seen whether one has enough discernment amidst the hoaxes, the fragility of the truth would be noticed and preserved when the valuable moment finally comes. In this case, especially in this country with a naive people subliminally manipulated to servitude of outside 'masters' seen or otherwise, so obviously glaring by name of country itself yet they do not even notice it, the lack of discernment could result to destroying and loosing certain fragile truth such that the damage could be tragically wasted like pearl thrown to a pig stye.

The issue does not rely whether you or I believed it or not when such mysteries in the universe will always exist and extend and it will always be there in the great vastness that starkly contrasts arrogant but myopic, narrowminded opinions like tiny irrelevant speck.

Pinoy ka kapag...

This is my recent post to a pinoyexchange thread entitled "Pinoy ka kapag.." (You're Pinoy if...)

A poster commented on his/her professor who mentioned that Maharlikan meant royal blood. I believe however, that Maharlika is a state of mind.

"Ok. Maari rin namang maging kadahilanang ang isang tao ay Maharlikan sa sinaunang panahon sa dugo kung ipinanganak ka ng Maharlikan na magulang. Pero ang wastong kahulugan talaga ng Maharlikan sa mga ancestors natin ay isang Malayang Tao. Marahil naging Maharlikan siya dahil sa mga magulang niya. Nguni't maari ring Maharlikan siya dahil sa noble act or great effort upang makamtan ang kalayaan.

Siguro kung alipin ang isang tao sa isang imperyo malayo sa bansa natin at nanaiisin niyang maging malaya, tatawirin niya ang malawak na karagatan tungo sa bansa natin at kapag makaligtas sa mapanganib na paglakbay, tumpak maging malayang tao siya at makapagbagong-buhay sa bansang ito. O di kaya pinalaya siya ng kanyang amo dahil sa kabutihang nagawa. Kaya noong sinaunang panahon napakaganda bansaging Maharlika ang isang tao (na binastos ng isang pilipinong 'iskolar kuno' centuries later).

I believe being Maharlikan is a state of mind dahil sa Sanskrit na maha lekha na ibig sabihin ay Noble Creation or Great Effort. Matindi kasi ang Sanskrit, ang quality nito ay maihahambing sa Greek at Latin na malalim ang definition ng mga salita.

Ang kinaiinisan ko lang bakit ang mga educational institutions ng bansang ito hindi gaanong nag research sa pre-colonial history ng bayan. Kaya pala when compared to other countries' universities palaging kulelat sa quality, kahit magaling pa kuno sa ingles. Kasi sa ibang bansa tinuturuan sila on building their very own countries, strengthening its culture, fostering its creativity as a nation. Eh dito sa Pilipinas tinuturuan lang how to be efficient commodities for the economic machinery at dinidisregard ang pagpapalakas sa kultura natin bilang isang bayan at palaging naka inculcate sa mga estudyante to serve efficiently the foreign masters, and that the struggle against them only results to futility. Eh karamihan nga hindi marunong mag appreciate ng Art sa nation building. Kaya kahit yang mga premiere schools pa ipinagmamalaki ninyo, kulelat pa rin mga yan to compare with other countries' educational institutions (kahit hindi magaling mag-ingles mga teachers) pagdating sa survey kasi sa kanila they empower their very own countries, unlike dito sa pinas. Dapat magdemand kayo ng pagbabago sa mga schools ninyo at iba pang govt insitutions, magdemand kayo sa mga professors ninyo na mag research sila sa pre-colonial history natin dahil hindi pa nila ginampanan ang dapat matagal nang ginawa nila, at naging kulelat ang bayan dahil sa kakulangan nila bilang educational institutions.

Para hindi OT, sasabihin ko na lang na pinoy ka kapag ganyan ginawa sa inyo ng educational institutions ninyo.

Very sad, but I must say it."

http://pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=350490&page=3

Maharlikan individuals

I have discovered in the internet search engine some indivudals who also prefer to call themselves as Maharlikan.

I will differentiate them over the rest of typical, mediocre Filipinos who are content at even naming themselves as mere subjects of a foreign colonizer.

http://pagodkanaba.blogspot.com/2007/12/maharlika-ang-dakilang-lahi.html
http://eksite.com/x.html?http://eksite.com/osmubal.080115.html
http://kaligutpay.meemax.net/2006/06/20/maharlika-ating-bayan/

of dictators and stupidity

The Cold War Era back in the 70's and 80's was a time of turmoil and conflict in the country. The despised dictator ruling the Philippines, protected by alien interest as most 3rd world despots during those times were, wielded with iron hand against an unruly people, where civil disobedience was deemed fashionable as a way to combat the rise of his unholy powers and of his cronies, in the same manner that they deemed it fashionable to ape the culture of outside influences while trashing their very own.

But then, it seemed not everything he did was dictated straight from alien devils. The dictator sponsored the International Rice Research Institute that experts unanimously agreed had actually helped resolve the threat of worlwide food shortage during that time. Many countries actually benefited from it, and its headquarters still stood proudly in the ricefields of Laguna, Philippines. Except that, ironically, at this very moment, the host country itself is actually experiencing an acute rice crisis with blasphemous prices, courtesy of alien multi-national corporations with their sky-rocketing costs for chemical-laced fertilizer and pesticide products (for decades they managed to suppress and humiliate the advocates for organic farming over hybrid rice that rely heavily on their chemical products), criminal rice hoarders, and inept land conversion policies. And this is long after the dictator was kicked out of the country. Strange, Makes one wonder who the devils turned out to be.



The dictator, it turned out, also happened to have enough foresight over the rest of the hollywood-enthralled masses. He attempted to make a move to change the country's name from the glaringly obvious, colonial undertoned "Philippines" into the noble "Maharlika." With its invaluable benefit at inculcating nationalism and strengthening the psyche of an otherwise strife-torn country thanks to alien meddling, double-whammied with its own weakened identity, it was a move not just to empower himself, but the rest of his countrymen as well.

But, the people too embittered with hardships and atrocities committed against them courtesy of worlwide manipulation by alien interests like the CIA (you mean, up to now you still didn't get it ?!?!), immediately held him suspect, convincing it a ploy for selfish aggrandizement.



The most destructive damage done against the movement to rename the country came from a supoposedly Filipino academic "scholar". Re-echoed by a puppet corporate media (Time Magazine, 19 June 1989) to give weight to its "credibility" in the mindset of puppeteered hoardes, the supposed "scholar" convinced the gullible that Maharlika stemmed from the Sanskrit word maha lingam, which means "great phallus." Deeming it fashionable to disobey the alien supported dictator, the rest sucked up to it hook-line-and-sinker, no questions asked.

That was before the Internet Era. Research any Sanskrit dictionary search engines today and you will discover that Maharlika may have originated from the words Maha Lekha, in which Maha means "great, noble," and Lekha, meaning "work, creation, writing." Even the Tagalog language also incorporated it with "likha", which means 'create'.

The use of Internet had virtually exposed the "scholar" to be the usual crab-minded dork for the otherwise irreparable damage he had done, and the 'credibility' of that magazine should be held in question.

Ask anybody from what term Maharlika would come close into, whether maha lekha (great work, noble creation) or maha lingam (great phallus) and stupidity will unanimously choose the latter.

And the Philippines remained named up to this day, still brittle in its divisive state, lacking in national pride while the rest of its Asian neighbors race in stride with their much nourished cultural legacies (and Filipinos had the gall to wonder why).

naming the country

The word "Philippines" came from the name of a Spanish King, Philip II. In 1543 the explorer Ruy Lopez de Villalobos coined the term by referring to this archipelagic cluster of islands as "Las Islas Filipinas" (Philip's Islands) in deference (perhaps even with affection) to the child heir of Spain's reigning monarch at that time, King Charles.

Hence, from the name of King Philip II, the word "Philippines" came into being.

Maharlikan

I remembered back in history classes, during otherwise boring lectures about Manila-centric colonial past, defeated battle heroes, and a poem hinting about Filipinos being hostages to an uncertain future, a certain topic jolted me out from stealing a nap in the middle of an afernoon lecture under a hot tropical sun (to this day, I remained baffled why some school administrators see to it that history classes be held right smack during siesta time, as if to instigate a personal revolt in the name of one’s body clock). The lecture classified the early pre-colonial society of native Malayan ancestors as the Datu (the ruling elite), the Timawa (neither nobility nor slave), Alipin (in a stroke of seeming sophistication, these were further classified into aliping sagigilid who served and lived in their masters’ houses for a lifetime, and the aliping namamahay who served for a certain time and also independently owned houses). Then, there was the Maharlika.

The Maharlika was a freeman. Perhaps he was freed from the bondage of his previous master, perhaps he fought his way in becoming one, or he must have, as most of our Malay ancestors did, crossed the wide perilous seas on a swift and sleek outrigged boat called balangay and dashed away for freedom towards an archipelagic cluster of islands far in the outskirt of the Pacific Ocean in which his confused, colonial brainwashed, culturally clueless, art unappreciative, advertising puppeteered offsprings now called – the Philippines.



I will decide to go against the flow of mediocrity and decadence prevalent in a naive society. Even if need be, I can choose to travel alone and not fear solitude, but I will never be lonely. I am with the stars and the stars are with me, just as the Maharlika must had felt when he gazed on them as he journeyed with his balangay with nothing but the vast seas in his midst, in the name of Freedom. I will do the seemingly formidabe and daunting task, i.e. free oneself. And since decades of Americanized education resulted to seeming proficiency in using the English language, I will call myself Maharlikan.

Why don't you.