Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:02:08 -0700 From: eskrima-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: Eskrima digest, Vol 9 #337 - 3 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.13.cisto1 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: eskrima-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: eskrima@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13.cisto1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net X-Subscribed-Address: fma@martialartsresource.com List-Id: Inayan Eskrima / FMA discussion forum, the premier FMA forum on the Internet. 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Inay (1944-2000). http://InayanEskrima.com/index.cfm See the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of the Eskrima/FMA list at http://MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! Today's Topics: 1. RE: Yaw Yan Sikiran (Carlo Arellano) 2. Re: Sikaran (Bill S Lowery) 3. Culture of corruption (Ray Terry) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Carlo Arellano To: "'eskrima@martialartsresource.net'" Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:59:48 -0700 Subject: [Eskrima] RE: Yaw Yan Sikiran Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Although, both are kicking arts they have different personalities and approaches. The closest analog is that sikiran resembles tae kwon do and yaw yan is more like muay thai. --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "Bill S Lowery" To: Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:33:42 +0100 Subject: [Eskrima] Re: Sikaran Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Hi Richard, Try www.sikaran.com for more info. Bill --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Ray Terry To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net (Eskrima) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Eskrima] Culture of corruption Reply-To: eskrima@martialartsresource.net Culture of Corruption by Teodoro Bacani Jr., DD Wednesday, September 25, 2002 The Catholic Church in the Philippines is celebrating National Laity Week. The celebration started Sunday and will last till September 28, the feast of San Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino canonized saint, who was a layperson. Laypersons are Christians in the world. Though consecrated by God through Baptism and Confirmation, they nevertheless remain involved in the affairs of this world, and are called by God to holiness primarily through the transformation of the world. The focus of this years celebration is the Christian family as good news for this millennium. I would like, however, to suggest to our laypeople a very important and urgent field of action which falls very much within their province as Christian lay faithful. It is the endemic problem of corruption in our society. We know that corruption is widespread, even pervasive, in Philippine society. It is also one of the main causes of our economic backwardness. But more than that, it is a sickness of the soul. Corrupt people are spiritually dead men and women walking. Thus, corruption makes our country spiritually backward also. We are losing our souls through corruption. An author has recently called our society itself, not only our leaders, corrupt. We elect corrupt leaders because we are a corrupt society. But it is even truer that our leaders have corrupted our people. While there was already much corruption before Marcoss martial law, the Marcos regime democratized corruption. Corruption during martial law and after was on a much bigger scale than ever before. We still have to recover from the legacy of corruption left us by the dictator. Corruption could not have become the widespread bane of our culture that it is today unless there had been a change in our values, and therefore in our souls. Corruption thrives only in a culture where money and power are upgraded to the highest level of values. Our grandfathers valued honor above all; you did not sell your honor for anything. That it is no longer so now. Today those who are called Honorable are willing to do dishonorable acts. And worse, they do not lose public esteem and continue to be called Honorable or Your Honor until they are caught. We have developed a culture of money and power. In this culture, the moneyed and the powerful ones are the saints canonized by society. They receive honor from everyone, including ecclesiastics. They dispense favors and uplift the lives of lesser mortals. Hence, people are willing to cheat and steal, and even kill, for money and power. For it is money and power that lift them up to the altar of public esteem. Sometimes, even leaders of religion abandon their calling to be prophets for the sake of profit. They keep silent when they have been paid handsomely. Or in the expectation of some benefaction. There is nothing, no tape, more effective to keep a churchmans mouth shut than a fat check. True prophets prophesy even in jail, as did Nelson Mandela, and our Ninoy Aquino. Those who profit keep quiet without being jailed, when the price is right. Because we have developed a money and power culture, we have also developed a culture of corruption. Where else but in a culture of corruption can corrupt leaders be elected or appointed into office and stay there? Where else but in a culture of corruption do morally upright people with noble intentions become corrupt soon after their election or appointment into office? Where else but in a culture of corruption are corrupt people allowed to get away with their loot even when they are caught, and can circulate in social circles as untainted butterflies or else fly somewhere else? I remember a text joke which runs: Question: What is the difference between corruption in the USA and corruption in the Philippines? Answer: In the USA, corrupt people go to jail. In the Philippines, corrupt people go to the USA. And so, here in the Philippines we start them young. In a very exclusive girls school, a Grade 1 pupil was caught cheating in an exam. She had a codigo, or cheating device. She was asked who made it for her. Her reply: My daddy. Fr. Joel Tabora, S.J., rector of Naga University, whom I met in a recent anticorruption forum remarked, You would be surprised how accepted cheating is among students. There were also some reports of the lessons of corrupt politics being taught to Sanggunian Kabataan candidates in their recent election. Efforts at eradicating corruption must also start with the young. Before they seriously catch the virus of corruption, parents, Church, schools, must band together and once more teach old-fashioned honesty and the value of personal integrity more than money and power. --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Eskrima mailing list Eskrima@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/eskrima http://eskrima-fma.net Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and http://MartialArtsResource.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember 9-11! End of Eskrima Digest