20090529

*Miyang, my dear darlingest, I wrote this entry yesterday night. It is originally dated 20090528 but since I do not have an Internet connection at home, I had had to wait till now - the evening of 20090529 - to post it here on our Planet Annelies. I have dated it accordingly at the time of its posting.

Dear darlingest Annemiyang Marie,

Old Defiant

You know, my love, today is Flag Day here in the Philippines. It is not a very prominent holiday over here, I guess, because I only found this out today.

I was reading a paper published by a local savings coop when I chanced on an article about the Battle of Alapan which occurred in our history this day, the 28th of May, 1898.

I have an affinity for our Flag, and you know that, my love, and it can not escape my heart that I had to find out about Flag day here in the Philippines exactly on this particular day, Flag day of 2009.

Serendipity indeed is Providence Itself speaking directly to hearts made attentive to Its teachings.

The nickname which I call have come to know our Flag, "Old Defiant", has deep resonance in our present times and where we to realize this today, we will be able to appreciate more, the roots of our Flag in our own history.

A clearer appreciation of Old Defiant this day, two weeks and a day before our Independence Day (which is incidentally also your birthday, my loveliest love), this coming 12th of June, I believe will help our one Filipino nation better understand who we are as a people.

"Why?", you might ask, my darlingest dear.

Well, let me tell you that it has been the great dream of all Filipinos to be truly free; to become independent.

"Independent from what?", I ask back: From each other? From other nations and their good? From the laws that preserve the public peace? From social responsibility? From human morality?

You see, without a Flag to gather us together as one nation - present to each other in the now as well as being that particular undertaking of Country unfolding in time - independence, its act and its object mean very, very little to me.

I know our Flag to be "Old Defiant" because I have seen it, in my mind's eye, defy those things that we should - as a people - by universal rights be independent from - poverty, despair and war - but most especially war, my love, most especially war.

War that is global in scope, as I have previously written to you, is a very significant evolution in the nature of this beast - "beast" meaning to say, the spirit of war as a whole. It has become a global paradigm of which our only viable defense is a complete turning away from the darkness eastward into the morning ward direction of the one whole peace.

Because war was from heaven thrown down, it must on earth be denied. And gathered within the sacred remembrances of all our nations, we are at this present time called to awaken and individually draw from the contrast of 2000 years, the distinctions by which we shall as a humanity, for better or for worse, shape the lasting nature of the coming age.

We must turn into each other in peace and together move away from war as a one family of the nations of Mankind. Indeed, there are other challenges that await only the regental presence of our humanity to join together as those greater wholes with the will to meet them and we can not establish those greater wholes if the greatest whole available to us is over run by the spirit of war. And indeed, these days, our one planetary whole is over run by the beast of war.

War has made our nations strangers to each other, forgetful of each their foundations for being; its dark spirit of division has driven a wedge deep into our humanity so that we, as human beings, are becoming more and more estranged from our own native humanity.

As a result, our whole planet is suffering, its systems meant by our one common Creator to sustain life is in a state of rapid deterioration (in planetary terms) and the obvious signs of these are everyday all around us.

We only have one planet, one inhabited earth that each our nations have been together called by covenant to raise from the darkness of an unknown earth, one greatest of wholes available to the regental authority of our shared humanity, one home away from Home - and this home is at present existentially threatened by war and its siege.
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The Abrahamic Charter

And so, my loveliest love, how do we respond down the lines of the wholes from the perspective of a nation, a nation like my beloved Filipino nation?

By the way, a nation that is a nation through internal, spiritual lines of descent is a nation that is more apt to endure the challenges of these times and then reap the rewards of the new age than a nation that seeks to know its own reality purely through external, corporal states of being.

For "race", as it were, is truly only a relational thing but "spirit" is an inherent truth within all the peoples of Mankind.

Spirit is the breath by which we as human beings hope and the hope by which we as peoples of the world have come to breathe together as a nation: This means motion more than external appearances; action more than utterances.

Therefore, we shall define a Filipino to be a heart that loves the Filipino nation as a whole, in time and in eternity.

Now, every nation also contains within itself other wholes which align in synergy with each other to complete the commonweal of Country.

Of these wholes, the city is the basic functional unit which is capable of producing a self-sustaining economy that exists within and draws from the greater economy of Country.

A city itself also contains lesser wholes which also align in synergy with each other to preserve the individual good and sustain the common good of the citizenry who reside, work or is otherwise present within its limits.

These lesser wholes are the barangays as well as any intermediate zones of necessary cooperation between those barangays under the city government.

Because we now consider a city as the basic functional unit of a nation, we shall in the spirit of Old Defiant respond by adapting a charter which is consistent with that city as a whole and relevant to the cause of peace - meaningful and sustainable - the one peace which is the Abrahamic peace: An Abrahamic Charter of the City of Miyangersjia.

If, let us say for the moment, each Abrahamic faith constitute a third of heaven, then it can not be whole by anything else but as all three joined together as one firmament with all people of good will.

We must indeed be ever mindful that just as our shattered sky becomes the void, to permit divisions to fracture a whole at anytime constitute a surrender once again into the descendant darkness of the gravity of war.

Now, the title of the city, "Miyangersjia", my loveliest love, is a personal preference of mine and is in no wise anything more than that - it has however a very meaningful significance that can only be grasped by those who know and have become closely acquainted with all that we have been working towards as human beings.

"Miyangersjia" as a conceptual Abrahamic city shall be a sister city to the city of Jerusalem.

The establishment of a strategic secondary capital city in our present days have become a viable answer to the problem of attenuation in the executive will within a nation that is becoming sufficiently aware of itself.

Therefore, we shall explore the concept of this city of Miyangersjia as a strategic secondary capital to our primary capital city of Manila.

I am of the conviction that the three stars of Old Defiant allows for one capital and two secondary capital cities for each of those stars.

Because the Republic by itself is sufficient but the structures within this framework must be capable of evolving with the Liberty of the people.

The two main islands of Luzon and Mindanao and the Visayas main islands provide the Philippines as a Country with great administrative potential because in only a few other undertakings of Country (Greece and Indonesia) is represented the challenges of such wide and diverse geography.

Now, the charter shall include a way of assistance for citizens who are willing to work their way from poor to middle class. We shall do this by encouraging and enabling active participation in cooperative efforts developed for and launched by the city.

Lines of continuity shall be distinctly upheld in that the Office itself shall take on more significance than the elected officer. The Office being understood as a whole as one entire lineage of persons that should in each their own present turn take the city from strength to strength, unto prosperity, unto posterity and unto the Last Day.

The Four Faithful Causes, the Social Exercises and the Honorable Intentions of the one Majority shall be adapted into the city charter.

The provision to raise an Abrahamic Home Guard unit shall also be included in the city charter.
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The Abrahamic Home Guard (the one Guard or the Abrahamic Guard): A Very Brief Outline

"...God posted an angel at the east side of the garden of Eden with a flaming sword that kept turning to guard the way..."

Genesis 3: 24

The mission of the one Guard is represented by the posture of the angel that guards the eastward way to Eden - to man - the way towards the tree of life - to our nations - the way of the one peace.

The one Guard itself is represented by the flaming sword that kept turning in all directions - a force primarily fielded to defend from all sides the rebuilding of those cities whose Eden have become lost to war.

Therefore, the universal insignia of the one Guard is a flaming sword or a six-winged, seraphic sword.
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The Abrahamic Home Guard is a all-volunteer, professional military outfit composed of citizen-soldiers that is much like the US National Guard in organization but is possessed with a very specific nature which is unique only to it.

The native command structure of the Abrahamic Guard follows that of the active military of which highest authority is always a civilian executive.

It has two roles, as a stability force, specialized in the conduct of the defense, when in active deployment and as a home defense force when it is stationed at its home city.

Deployed in Peace operations, the one Guard acts as a stability force in support of coalition or allied Maneuver Forces under the direct authority of the coalition theater commander.

Its center of gravity shall be the designated city of its sphere of active area responsibility.

I have already defined the necessary characteristics of a stability force in a previous entry on our main blog, my loveliest love.

Command of the Abrahamic Home Guard as a home defense force require that the necessary assessment of the needs of the situation be made and understood:

When stationed at its home city, the one Guard is its home defense force engaged in civil defense operations under the city government.

When necessary it shall work in cooperation with other one Guard units in support of the provincial whole right up to the greatest possible whole which are Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao as wholes in themselves.

In civil defense operations above the city level, all those Abrahamic Guard units that are likewise engaged shall as a whole fall under the authority of the provincial government and then under the DILG which shall take command of its activities above the provincial level.

When deployed in support of the civil defense operations of ASEAN or our allies, it shall fall under command of the provost marshal or the composite commander of that deployment force.

It is also a reserve force in support of our active military defense forces in times of national military emergencies (involving the national whole) at which time, it shall follow the DoD chain of command with the president as its highest commander-in-place.

Every commander-in-place is a designate officer in charge of a command responsibility within the Abrahamic Home Guard - these officers, military or civilian in the executive chain of command, are individuals who must be constantly aware that the operation of the one Guard is not exclusively secular in nature and that the one Guard once established is part of the fulfillment of the Abrahamic promise to bless the communities of Mankind and have a responsibility to answer to the one Almighty as the highest source of morality.

There are mission-specific elements that is native to the responsibility of the one Guard which are always in effect:

It is charged with the protection (alongside local law enforcement) of holy places of worship (synagogues, churches and mosques as well as places of honorable religion), Abrahamic clergy (Judaic, Christian and Islamic), all teachers of every honorable religion, and all persons of good will within each established sphere of active responsibility who are likewise engaged in humanitarian operations in support of the rebuilding of the peace and the defense of sacred life, above all human life.

If it should ever become necessary, all Abrahamic Guard units have a common and intrinsic responsibility as a whole to defend the cities of Jerusalem, the Vatican, Mecca and Medina from invasion - as these cities must be kept pristine and untrammeled until the Last Day, for without these cities, the existence of the one Guard itself comes into peril.
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Twilight Pawprints

The exploitation of human needs give rise to systems of evil or as the late, great JPII said, "structures of sin" - and these in their own turn support false economies that bind the helpless into itself.

Now, the greatest of these false economies is human trafficking but also includes (and is not limited to) prostitution, pornography, piracy and illicit drugs.

False economies feed on the desperate and in turn create more despair. It is the exact opposite of the real economy of common Country which empower the hopeful and in turn create more hope.

Despair when it becomes prevalent among the people opens the way for those social sins that when fed into those systems of evil, in its turn paves the way for the spirit of war to mature and effect the gradual disintegration of our human families, human communities, and entire human nations.

Measures to combat these false economies require an understanding of not only law enforcement but also of the morality of human need which when it is sufficiently understood allow us to attack the evil at its roots.

My darlingest dear, "Pawprints", we envision shall be a media production company that supports a charity dedicated to providing people a place in the real economy of our nations.
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We shall begin this by creating greeting card products that specifically target the contact points between nation and state; the effective dialogue of every Country of which well-being is called patriotism in the people.

We shall work to encourage this dialogue, my loveliest love, between the people and the state through printed material and initially we shall do this again by creating the appropriate greeting cards.

Also, we shall target the national morale and create inspirational material that is native to the Philippine experience.

We shall create material that encourage and reinforce our Abrahamic message in the people which is peace and the promise of peace.

We shall create material that encourage and reinforce the recovery process of those working their way apart and away from things that are false such as pornography, prostitution, drugs, alcoholism, destructive gambling, etc.

I've already researched some parts of the greeting card aspect of the initial product that we are going to work on in "Pawprints", my loveliest love. I just need to visualize the product itself.

Much further down the course of Pawprints, I should like to see it branch out from printed materials to other forms of media communication - audio, software as well as film. It is not beyond me to write a script for any of those things - so long as I keep in our LORD's good graces, and so long as I have you as my darlingest, cutesiest, most purrrtiest friend, my loveliest love, I shall be much, much inspired, for good things do come to those who wait and pray, I know, my Miyang, you came to me - and you stayed.

I realize that Planet Annelies might no longer have retained its private nature, my loveliest love, and so might have to withhold - for practical reasons - the exact nature of some things specific to Pawprints as a business undertaking. I hope you understand, my loveliest love. I keep no secrets from you - how can I? This is not the only communication that we have with each other anyway.
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I also need to come up with a mission statement and vision for the company as a whole, my darlingest dear, those plus other relevant things such as an invitation to invest, a presentation letter, as well as the company values that shall eventually shape its own work and management culture.

Of those work values, we shall only need to draw from those values that are already formed from our experiences within Planet Annelies: Life. Humanity. Friendship. Progress.

The logo would of course be a pawprint or two sets of pawprints moving on an eastward direction, I am also not yet sure on the graphic, my darlingest dear, but I should like to make it light and colorful (the color palette would be that of a dawning sky) without losing its meaningfulness to us.

As Pawprints is an actual business venture, my loveliest love, and shall therefore, be particularly concerned with the economy of material things and as you and I both would like that this particular accounting entity be built around the charity* whose foundation cause it shall exist to serve, we should very much rather start with those who are willing to believe in it and who are ready to build it with me, materially (investment) but also immaterially (business advice, good will and moral support) as regards to this very specific undertaking that we are also establishing for God and Country.

*Anne's Hope for Humanity or Anne's Hope (your own hope to help our needful Mankind, my loveliest love, that you expressed to me which is now our hope together) operating under the Pax Caelestis Trust established for it.

And so with a specific view on Pawprints, we shall draw first from our own immediate family and family friends and then from my own friends who are my batch mates at school (St. Andrew's) and then outward.
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To the people of Mindanao of the one Republic of the Philippines

I know there is promise in Mindanao, a rich promise - if only peace would finally arrive in the hearts of the people of Mindanao.

Therefore, I should like to encourage the people of Mindanao, my loveliest love, who are much sorely grieved by the presence of war in their midst.

The one Republic of the Philippines can not continue in its course without that one star upon our Old Defiant being lit aglow by the golden promise of peace in this land and the blessings of peace settle amidst the good people who live and work to build upon our Mindanao.

Most of our work, my loveliest love, the one Solidarity, the one Majority, the one Guard, even Pawprints are elements that can be applied in Mindanao towards the end for which these means are intended to achieve - peace and the prosperity of peace for the one Filipino nation and all other nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind who are in each themselves - in their own way - in need of that same peace, that one peace.

For no nation upon this inhabited earth is meant to be mediocre. Each and every one must eventually come to a realization that it is possessed with the greatest undertaking of Country in all of creation and where this truth is born upon each of our nations under the sign of peace, then it would all equally hold true in the heart of each and every one of these, our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind. Only war seeks to divide the good not to share it but to destroy it.

I can not emphasize enough the vital importance of peace in our world that at present faces an existential threat from the spirit of war. The breaking of its siege laid for centuries upon our nearly exhausted nations lies not in opposing the beast but in denying it a place in our hearts and therefore in our lives and therefore in our times.

And so we must apply this here and now where we are as a nation and as a whole and its most direct application, I personally am convinced, in the context of this, our one Republic of the Philippines is found upon the rising of that star in our Old Defiant, Mindanao, to make our Country whole again in God.

Every particular experience of conflicts bred under the sign of the beast of war should after a time, times and half-a-time, if a nation is meant to endure, make distinct that choice for peace - because remembrance is the substance of our nations and a nation bereft of its own remembrance is a nation lost to a people who can not hope to tarry in this midnight world.

But I believe in my Filipino nation and hold to the same hope for all those nations of our shattered planetary whole who are of good will, even though their words might say otherwise what their hearts intend to communicate, I believe in their endeavor of Country as the greatest alongside mine which is also the greatest in all the universe. We can not be a family if we fail to have hope for each other without fail and as far as humanly possible.

And since we are bound by our LORD by covenant to be a family of nations, we may also now know that the way of peace is the only way to bring down the blessings of heaven upon our nations and healing upon this one earth.

And so we are left with a choice, my loveliest love, a choice that we are all each required to make who are called of God and of Country to deliver the promise of peace made by our LORD to our Father Abraham of old which is a promise that the numberless stars shall as one whole firmament bless the needful communities of Mankind.

At no other time in our history are we in need of this promise than we are as a planetary whole at this present time and in this present generation.

Upon this background of the greater wholes is the peace of Mindanao to be established and upon the hope of many lives, past, present and future, are we to draw strength and momentum to make this blossom into reality for our one Republic.
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Let me confirm in all of you,
my dear people of Mindanao,
what I know is already instilled
within each of your heart of hearts -
believe with conviction of faith
that there is no hope in war:

We are a nation, my dear people,
by battle born and bred
but never shall we attain to victory
if we allow war to rule our way.

So raise that Old Defiant -
rally to the calling of peace!

Know once again, O my nation,
O you people of Mindanao,
what it means to labor
from hope to hope
and to build
from strength to strength;
let us awaken each ourselves -
stir our hearts unto sacred remembrance -
at every present and from every past
unto those freedoms cherished
unto that prosperity dreamed about
under the waving of that banner
that Old Defiant -
of this, our one Republic,
our home away from Home.
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My dear darlingest, I have to go for now.

It is now the morning of the 29th and its a Friday. I have promised you before that we shall go gallivanting and I shall make up for that promise today. We two cats always find a way to have fun, as I always say, don't we, my Mrrrowley, my Mrrrowley Polly. Oh, I love you so much.

We still have to work on that post on Friendship which is a requisite to other posts, dedicate Arcs in the Sky to the Path, work on a prayer for priests and also pray for a broader understanding of the Mid-east Peace.

Always to always,

Pusing

P.S.

By the way, my loveliest love, I have no desire to run for anything but the race that our LORD has set before me with you. And I am happy to contribute to the good of the one Republic of my beloved Philippines. Anything more than that apart from those immediate things we are working on right now, my love, such as Pawprints, etc., has not yet occurred to me yet.

There is a sex video scandal brewing at the moment, my dear, that involves - of course, a guy and a girl, and I really feel for the girl who I think is always on the losing side of any issue that calls into question the morality of the sexes. We have to advise our Starshine well, on this point.