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A fresh grad who finds herself waking up after lunch (GMT+8, mind you). She is into videogames, anime & manga , certain book genres, a bit of music, and dogs. An introvert, she is generally slow in warming up unless she sees that a person has at least a common interest. She knows too little of HTML so she had to download this pre-made layout.
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abril 05, 2005
I don't know why this always happens to me but once more, I made an entry, click the "Publish Post" button and that "Cannot find server"/"The page cannot be displayed" message occurs. Is it Blogger's or DLSU's internet connection's fault? I haven't blogged using our home PC for some time now; I usually blog in school. Then again, an error also happens sometimes whenever I go to another site such as Friendster when I click on a profile or a bulletin board message after I have logged-in. I guess I should copy and paste my entry on Notepad or MS Word before I publish my post. The same goes with long HaloScan messages because HaloScan truncates messages when they exceed 1000 characters.(Original Message... well, what I remember of it anyway ^^')
It's funny that my blog's name is Perspective (I now think that it's a lame name for a blog) yet I don't usually give commentaries on current issues. I probably would have done more of those if time had not flown so quickly. So... here's my say about the pope's passing:
While I did not get teary-eyed on the news, nakakanibago ito ng pakiramdam. Syempre nalungkot ako nguni't nangibabaw ang paninibago ko sa sitwasyon. Pope John Paul II was already the pope when I was born and 2 decades later, it is unusual for me to hear that such an important figure had passed away. I know that he is old and he is suffering from different ailments, the most prominent being Parkinson's disease, but he continued his mission of leading his flock in such a state that it did not run into my mind that his time on earth would end at a more rapid rate then I thought. He was a very respected person and very influential, much more than Santa Claus I hope. I may not be a devout Catholic but I would have like to have met him in person had he still been alive. Of course, his passing is not the end of all. In Christian doctrine, we have eternal life after we die so following this notion, he should be transcending to that state.
While others continue to mourn over his death, I wonder about what his successor would be like. Would the next pope be Italian or not? Would he be able to rise above his immediate predecessor's shadow given the latter's popularity among the people of the world? Would he be able to tighten more the bonds between Christianity and the other faiths? Would he be as traditional as the previous popes, or would he welcome the radical changes that liberal Christians lobby for such as artificial contraception and female priests? I do hope that whoever gets elected as the new pope is capable of handling the burden that the ones before him had left. I pray that he will do his job well especially in these troubled times.
EDIT:
It seems that Blogger's "BlogThis!" feature in its navbar (the bar on top of blogs hosted by Blogspot) works more reliably than going through the main website when posting. It could also be a coincidence.
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