How HAPI Impacted Me (#1) An essay series featuring retrospectives by HAPI members, staff, and leaders. I cannot stress enough how humanism saved my life… or, at the very least, my worldview. Before coming across Humanist Alliance Philippines, International, I was a young atheist who wasn’t really sure where or whom to take his […]
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Transgressing against the Church By Edgar Louis Garcia HAPI Scholar During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Catholic Church was greatly respected and feared by many. Their devotion to God was matched only by their brutality against those who would stand in their way. People who were against the Church were considered heretics and thus
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The HAPI Playlist, Pt. 1 We, the HAPI Scholars, believe that music has the underrated ability to change hearts and minds. A good song won’t just get you grooving (or weeping); its words can profoundly affect you and recalibrate your worldview. Over the decades, many of our favorite musicians have used their art to call
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Cyclists Clean up Coastline to Protect Sea Turtles in Zambales When the pandemic commenced, public transportation was among the first sectors to shut down to lessen the transmission of the virus. To augment the lack of public transport, those who can, procured bicycles to be used in their daily errands, especially in going to
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Alabang Reading Room Opens by: Angie Driskell Last August 1, Angie Driskell (HAPI Jr. Ambassador) and Jhing Dedicatoria (HAPI Alabang Assistant Lead Convener) met with the management of the unit that was then secured for the Alabang Reading Room to finalize its occupancy with a contract signing. In the first call for donations and
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Creating ties amid the pandemic By Donna Darantinao HAPI Youth Ambassador New opportunities were launched for the youth during the two-day virtual activity conducted by HAPI Youth named Building Blocs: Creating Connections for the Youth last July 10-11 through Zoom. The event was filled with insightful talks from invited guest speakers. For the first
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By Rado Gatchalian, The FILOsopher First published in the author’s Facebook blog: The FILOsopher The cliché “as you age, you become wise” only fits in a context where maturity is synonymous with supreme omniscient knowledge. But behold — when we accept this saddest (yet glorifying) truth that we shall all succumb to deterioration — and
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By Junelie Anthony Velonta HAPI Scholar The eyes of a portrait stare in the same way human eyes do. While they are soulless, nothing more than paint on canvas, they represent people, and wherever people are depicted, they carry with them emotions, thoughts, ideas—life. God may have given breath to Adam, but it was man
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By Edgar Louis de Gracia HAPI Scholar The Salem Witch Trials were a series of witchcraft cases in 1692-1693 in colonial Massachusetts. It was believed that witches were young women and men who were possessed by the devil or involved themselves in “the dark arts”. By then, the belief wasn’t new: the idea of the
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By Edgar Louis de Gracia HAPI Scholar When I was a young boy, I was subjected to religious indoctrination. For the longest time, I was led to believe that asking for forgiveness, being good, and praying to God would help; my young self believed those words and never questioned them. As time passed, when I
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