Is it real or is it sarcasm?
I found a yahoo message board which, at first sight, seems to imply it might be similar to this message board.
In fact, some girls post, but it's mostly a bunch of Sunday school banter. One guy writes in with a bunch of religious mumbo jumbo. The next post is quoted below. At first, I thought it was real. But, now I wonder....is this very subtle sarcasm? Maybe Dominic knows...
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Well, I am bringing my best friend with me to the PI in November. We
are looking for a really godly woman as well, and we'd like the Lord to
bring her to us, and give her to us.
How do we expect to meet her?
Probably by accident, fate, or God's working.
I don't know what to do or think. But putting messages on this board is
better than sitting at home watching a movie, right?
Some of us are just a bit lonely, and would love to have lifetime
partners.
A rose by any other name...
Ah Mahku, if I had not met you I would think you were something of a skeptic. Who could doubt the continuing soap opera-like epic that is life in the Philippines? Nothing here is sad; it must be tragic. The concept of liking does not exist, but loving madly certainly does. Mild anger is not within the Philippine lexicon, but screaming hyteria is common.
The personal life histories of these ladies are but microcosms of the political arena, in which there are villains and heros aplenty, and they are mostly interchangeable, but there are no shades of gray. This is a culture in which subtlety does not seem to exist, and which has no sense of its own irony.
This is a place deeply imbued with the importance of empty, but sweepingly dramatic symbolic gestures, which is what allows the government to pass myriads of laws to help the poor, few of which are ever implemented and even fewer of which are ever funded. This is a country that articulates wonderfully ambitious economic goals which, once trumpeted with great fanfare, slowly sink beneath the muck of public consciousness, never to be heard of again, only to be replaced by similar, if not identical fiats several months later.
Truth, as we would define the concept in the West, is not synonomous with truth here. Facts count far less than transient emotions, which may be expressed sincerely at the time they are uttered, only to be forgotten as the next emotion sweeps through. Therefore, if a girl needs to make up a preposterous story to express how she is feeling at a given moment, the recounted facts may be (usually are) bullshit, but the emotion is probably valid, albeit temporary.
Succinctly, life here is but a play, and the Filipinos, for the most part, merely players. The tragedy is that the farce has been running so long that it's now accepted as reality.
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GE