JAPAN'S DISASTERS: THE KARMIC LAW?

ANDRES MIGUEL PASION


The wrath of nature an implementation of the Karmic Law?

We are humans and we grieve over those who perished in Japan's triple disasters: the 8.9 magnitude earthquate and the tsunami that killed, at the latest count, 20,000 people and its crippled nuclear plant--we can only surmise how long would that be when the first victims of radiation will be known.

But those who believe in mysticism, misteries if you will, and the karmic law and even the Biblical injunction about the wages of sins visiting the generations will attribute the country's misfortunes to the pre-ordained fate: Japan must pay the debts for its subjugation of people from Manchuria to Burma to Southeast Asian and the Philippines, where its brutal forces bayonetted children, burned and buried alive men and women, whom they also raped, in World War II and even before that global upheaval. All for the glory of Emperor Hirohito.

De-Activating the FB Account

So far the floods of suffocating email messages have stopped flowing since almost a week ago. Before, I was busy deleting unwanted stuffs, even tagged ones like videos which I could not play in the laptop, anyway, because of inadequate internet connections. Missed my cyber friends, but do you miss someone you have not seen in person ?

The name, the Mangyan maiden, is probably an exception. But she is saying I am fading away from her. That's what her girl-mind thinks. A choice. For me, once a friend always a friend--you can not "unfriend" anymore who you consider one of few sincere and honest friends you have. Walang iwanan. But that's her decision. Yet she can always come to me in Abel, or I, to her through the blog. Muchas gracias, amiga, para los comentos. The poet as number two in the hierarchy of VIPs? Overrating the person? Praise the Lord!