Haideism The belief of the existence of the Divine Goddess named H A I D E in the Gnostic Bible. She was reincarnated into a Homo Serpentes, an extinct class of human being as identified by the modern scientists. The Goddess was neither born not created with a purpose. Haide creates who she is (her essence) by the choices she makes in life. She alone is responsible for her actions, so to achieve her aims society's rules need not be obeyed. Afterall, humans construct truth rather than discover it, and there is no objective good or evil. Goddess Haide believes that there is a higher God who created the universe, but He does not intervene. According to her, "If there is no God, it would be very necessary to make one."

--H.C. Laswe 06:10, 27 November 1985 (UTC)

Religious Views

I go about my daily life understanding almost nothing about the world. I gave a little thought about what neither makes life possible, why the sky is blue nor bother wondering if love could really move mountains. It is as if I was sleep walking, except during my younger years when, as a child, I never run out o0f important questions. Nevertheless, I enjoy li9fe of greater independence and freedom that is simply amazing! My growing enthusiasm for life leads me to dream of experiencing extreme adventure: scuba diving, biking down the hill, sky diving and ultimately, bungee jumping. But as I get older, I’m growing more cautious.

My life’s daily pattern of living, eating, studying, sleeping and existing seems to hide the more amazing fact: Life is precious! Life is fragile and life will definitely come to an end. How many more breaths will I breathe in and blow out?

My human consciousness is obviously limited. I seldom come into thinking that my life is extraordinarily precious and delicate which is totally vulnerable to any risky sport and hobbies I may want to pursue—I’m a finite being in infinite possibilities of adventure in this world.

Bit by bit, I realized why death is seen as a giver of meaning. As I struggle with the mystery of my death, I am also in struggle to discover the meaning of my life. That is when I started asking: What on earth am I here for? What is the purpose of my life?

My intellectual curiosity comes from the very nature of my being human. I should ask questions and I should have answers. These answers have serious consequence that will profoundly affect the way I live.

Without further interrupting my routinous human activity, my every action is now implicitly longing to find the ultimate answer—the absolute truth. My sense of craving, somehow, makes me feel that m7y life seems to be a mere preparation towards the absolute. In my human relationships, people may judge me of what I have done but I tend to judge myself of what I am capable of doing. This idea opens to the possibilities of my purpose in life to be linked with the existence of a God.

As a Christian, I have my own prejudices of defending my own points of view about the concept of God. Yet, while exposure to different ideas has always been a part of my educational experiences, I don’t seem to realize my understanding of absolute truth. I was not prepared for something that would challenge my Christianity and something that was so subtle that, at first, I didn’t realize it was happening. Like an undetected computer virus worming its way through a hard drive, I seem to embrace the self-empowering myth that whatever I sincerely believe is true. If I insist that since God did not reveal Himself to me, I may sincerely believe that God does not exist. But the absolute truth is not about feelings and is not dependent on circumstances. This is purely a fallacy of my own reasoning. My understanding of the absolute truth is like denying the law of gravity that just because I can’t see nor touch it—doesn’t mean gravity doesn’t exist.

As a real Christian, I must realized that the humanistic idea that human beings are capable of determining our own way apart from God just doesn’t square with reality. I live in a physical world with its four space-time dimensions of length, width, height and time. God, however, dwells in a different dimension—the spirit realm—beyond reach of my physical senses. It’s not that God isn’t real; it’s a matter that He is not limited by the physical laws and dimensions that govern the world.

Probably, the hidden purpose of our existence, the emptiness and the longing is our desperate needs to be reconciled to God—to find our way back to God. It is sin that seems to stands in our way.

Scientific Career

I have enough about people who kept on asking me, “What is Sociology and what will you be doing by then?” I usually answer them with creepy smile “Oh Sociology? I will be working on the NSO or PopCom… you know, doin’ the surveys and all that?” It is such a lame answer I know. I never really have an idea of why am I taking up this course.

It was past dinner time when I crushed myself into a pile of untouched hand-outs of my sociology majors. At the back of my head I started shouting, “Eurika, Eurika!” It is as if I experienced serendipity but it wasn’t. It was just a matter of putting an interest upon reading with understanding on sociology. It was then that I found a two-page hand outs that answers all my questioning. It is so motivating that I never get tired reading it again and again until I get to snap back to reality. It is entitled, “Theory and Practices of Social Sciences”: “Why are we here? Why are we Anthropologist and Sociologist? Why we do what we are doing? I hope all of you-all of us will respond BECAUSE WE LOVE what we are doing. We love wisdom. We love knowledge. Because it is what we suppose to be doing to add the BODY OF KNOWLEDGE in social science. I suppose if we really love what we are doing-then-we must have added already by now tremendous large amount of KNOWLEDGE to the existing theories in our field. Really??? What KNOWLEDGE? What theories?”

Now, the answers for these questions will serve as a challenge for me. Because I am a social scientist . . . in the making.

--H.C. Laswe ♫ 08:39, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Haideism Theory

The Theory of "Libak"

Nobody escapes rumors:from the innocent child from a mother’s womb,to the most holy person on earth. We are all victims of rumors!We are all victims of our own prejudices!

Rumors, common talk, backtalk, hearsay,fuss, "libak" in our vernacular: few of the familiar terms of getting information. Majority says these form of inquiry are devastating, unreliable, plainly non-sense. If only words can kill. But how come these ways of getting information are prominent in our society? Why does it continue to exist? We even have the famous sow business to get along with.

My little background about social science allows me to look at rumors subjectively. Rumors may have certain important functions in the society. Rumors are difficult or even impossible to get rid off because of the following possible reasons:

As one of the famous personalities says: “ There’s nothing more entertaining than to laugh at others mistake.”

It simply makes people feel good about them selves. It is one form of human defense mechanism to ease their personal frustrations.

I do not mean to imply that they are thought but that they are learned and continue being practice. Among Filipinos, more often than not, we have that “ crab mentality”. We do not like seeing someone on top. We try to drag these people down and be one of us down under. We are envious, “masinahon” so to say. I have my own prejudices. But I personally believe that spreading rumors or being a fusser is a choice. It doesn’t just happen. As long as rumors and fussers continue to exist, we continually contribute to our own destruction. This earth will always be a living Hell!

The Plague

If this were to become a formal study my technique is therefore considered as a participant observation. The weakness of this study is that somehow I may express biases. According to Horton of 1978, “A Bias is an unconscious tendency to notice and interpret facts in a way that supports our value preferences.” Also, this study does not involved large masses of facts which have been collected, organized, and interpreted intelligently.

For over a year I have been an active member on Friendster. I spend a minimum of an hour a day at least four days a week surfing and browsing the site. One can even categorize me as a “friendster addict”. An every time I get into it, it never fails to amaze me.

As Friendster continues to advance, it seems to me a medium of expression [particularly a freedom of self-expression and/or individualism]. There is nothing wrong with that, of course. But along with it is a noticeable and enormous practice of plagiarism. By its definition, I am definitely guilty about it as well. I appreciate hoe the management of Friendster make a move against plagiarism. But I don’t think they have gone as far as totally blocking the abusive user.

Friendster is also slowly but surely poisoning the young people with amoral influences and toxic trends. As if allowing people to post nudity, explicit languages and images related to drugs and alcoholism weren’t bad enough influences.

Sadly, it only gets worse as more and more teens are exposing to Friendster technology. Obviously, parents have less contact on this matter. In the Philippines, traditional parents don’t even have any idea what Friendster is all about.

I believe most young people feel indifferent about this concern. The general interest does not focus on this “little things”. But remember “Small leak can sink a great ship.” Or probably the people are just romanticizing the whole Friendster thing that they fail to see its consequences. Again, according to Horton, 1978, “To romanticize means to see something the way one wants it to be, not the way it really is”.

Friendster if only use correctly can offer a lot of great values in life. It includes, but not limited to development of individual creativity, respect and appreciation of one’s uniqueness long lasting friendship and most probably a path of finding one’s true love. But if it use otherwise the result may also be equally devastating.

One thing is for sure friendster is not a “social problem”. It never really is… well, at least not for now.

Feminist View

Why are we celebrating Women’s Day?

Because Women’s Day is part of our herstory

On the 8th day of March 1857, women made an event that started it all.

They fought hard and long for the world to listen.

They made it less difficult for us today to speak out and be heard.

We owe to them the spaces we enjoy today, no matter how limited they still seem.

At least once a year, we ought to pay these women our respect and special remembrance.

(International Women’s Day 2004, leaflet, Ecumenical Women’s Forum: “Weaving Women’s Creative Power for Life.”).

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	File:Haidelyn Laswe 2008.jpg Haidelyn Laswe
Born	November 27, 1985; Philippines
Citizenship	Filipino
Alma mater	Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan [1]
	Scientific career
Fields	Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology

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