THE WORD: “There’s a big difference between religiosity and spirituality.
Religiosity is more on rituals and on traditions while spirituality is worshipping God purely in the spirit because we worship Him in truth and in the spirit. God sees only our spirit, and without it, we’re dead in his sight, spiritually.”
THE Crisis Management Committee in last Thursday’s midday press briefing held at the conference room of City Hall, announced that the curfew hours be shortened starting at 12 midnight to 4 a.m. the following day.
Previous to this, the curfew which came about due to the recent two huge crisis- the September bloody standoff and the succeeding massive flash floods – was from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
IN the said CMC briefing, Mayor Beng Climaco-Salazar commended all those who, in one way or another, did their part in helping Zamboanga City rise from its darkest horizon during the herculean crisis.
AT our extreme angst, I suppose, we manage to fence off those potential threats still hounding us to this day.
ON their part, our authorities keep on assuring us of their supposed tight security mantle spread out, citywide.
IN my very recent interview with Task Force Zamboanga Commander Army Col. Andrelino Colina on Oct. 15, those supposed threats accordingly stemmed partly from the Moro rebel group/s off the borders of Barangay Limpapa near the boundary of Sibuco municipality in Zamboanga del Norte.
BUT, the good Colonel appeared the least worried – meaning there’s not much to fear in mi ciudad de Zamboanga.
“We already checked and verified those reported threats,” the TFZ Chief declared, as if to calm down the whole situation here after those harrowing days that we all went through.
THE best that we can do to help our authorities, instead, is never be part of these loonies out to fan more troubles.
DIDN’T our CMC head Mayor Beng Climaco-Salazar remind us all in here to train all those unverified alarming text messages appearing in our cell-phones to either the AFP through its Western Mindanao Command here or to the Philippine National Police through their own PRO-9 Headquarters as well?
THE problem within us is we keep being defiant and even foolhardy, at times, to all these and when they occur truthfully, we get rattled and panic all the way.
Too bad, we act that late resulting to our own debacle in the end.
WHAT I’m trying to drive at, is be, at all times, ready to treat all these potential threats as indeed real and really exists – for awareness sake.
IS there a local version of Napoles in mi ciudad de Zamboanga?
A lot of talks are abuzz these days about our own Napoles bleeding that bad our own coffers to the point it drains dry, nothing left to the poor and plenty to spare for the few who are rich.
WHY is it so? Think of our government projects easily washed out, compared to those private ones that can prove too sturdy not to easily fall down.
ONE concerned citizen brought up such local Napoles issue just the other day, and true to his word, came the buzz unsurprisingly that indeed we have our own Napoles right now supposedly making our city – already badly battered – virtually a milking cow.
THIS is nauseating! This is despising and more so, condemnable!
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