My Philosophy of Life

How Stoicism Changed My Life Image courtesy of dailystoic.com By Ronald Michael Quijano It is hard to be an atheist. Yes, it is enlightening; it is also a great platform to bestow your ideas and reason concerning common beliefs and traditions. However great your knowledge is regarding those matters, you must be backed up by wisdom. I was aggressive in my atheism view last 2018, I politicize the classroom with my biased notion, always engaged in continuous exhortation with extreme sophism. I was heavily influenced by the great atheism figures such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Christopher Hitchens. Heavily influenced by their ability to deliver homiletic speeches, I too practiced such. Fascinated by their way of offending religion, and justifying that offending someone will trigger intellectual colloquy, I too practiced such doings by continuously ridiculing religious beliefs. I did not see that engaging in such practice would debilitate understanding and effective com

How Christmas Has Changed Throughout the Years Image courtesy of Vanjuan by Ronald Michael Quijano, LPT It was Christmas Eve of 2005; I used to wake up at nine in the evening to help my mom to set up the wooden table, on it, our humble  Media Noche  comprised of fried chicken, bread, spaghetti, shanghai, and a sandwich spread. Our room is dim, we are living in an old apartment so we need to lower down the volume of our sound system since the other tenant is listening to their own Christmas playlist. Some, prefer a quiet evening. Before dinner, my mom would bring us to church to attend the  Misa de Gallo,  as we went through the streets, I see kids of my age wearing new, colorful, and simple clothes. Each house has its own Christmas design; lights, trees, garlands, Santa Claus statues, and paper greetings. Some are elegant and expensive while some are simple yet beautiful. After the mass, we are stopping by the streets to buy either  puto bumbong  or  bibingka . Then we dig into

My personal reasons why I don't believe anymore. Image courtesy of Jeff Walton by Ronald Michael Quijano, LPT I was baptized as a catholic when I was a few months old. This is the path that most children will take and will largely shape their worldview - Imagine deciding things for someone without even asking their consent if they wanted to become a Catholic or, a Muslim, or a Hindu, then the option is given too late when there's too much social pressure in you and will eventually end up swallowing their doctrines - just like how Iglesia ni Cristo control their member's indoctrination. I was raised in a set of traditions that Catholicism constantly practice - confession, confirmation, communion, etc. The bells that chant simultaneously create illusory depths in my ears, the choir that astonishes me with harmony, the beautiful paintings, and the sculptures that surround the church are overflowing with the artist's inspiration and faith. At first, it was easy for