Peter Anunar blues...

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It is just the beam in one own eye that enable us to detect the mote in one of our brother eye. The beam is one’s own eye does not prove that one’s our brother eye has no mote in his. But the impairment of one’s own vision might easily give rise to a general theory that all motes are beams.

The recognition and taking to hearth of the subjective determination of knowledge in general and of psychological knowledge in particular are basic condition for scientific and impartial evaluation of psyche different from that of the observing subject.

These conditions are fulfilled only when the observer is sufficiently informed about the nature and scope of his own personality. He can however, be sufficiently informed only when he has a large measure freed himself from the labeling influence of collective opinions and thereby arrived at a clear conception of his own individuality.

In the “Blunder Book,” Mr. Lloyd Pereira tells of a new clerk in Covert Operation Representative who sent out a memo to his collogues. In it, he appealed for accuracy in their written communications. But when the memo was distributed, it had more or less nine errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

When the memo fell into the hands of small time press, the embarrassed clerk said, He couldn’t have made a worse blunder if he had tried.

Similar embarrassment is bound to occur whenever “rgjam” expect other to measure up to the high standard of reporting or writing without first examining himself.

If our attitude is mixed with pride/proud and self-righteousness, our words will come back to hunt us. What he says maybe correct, but the way he says it must always be with humility and sense of our own shortcoming.

We should encourage other to do right and not using the name of God but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. Navalean should stir-up one another to fight a rotten government and action not hypocrisy. We are all Navalean, so we must be neither judgmental nor patronizing. Instead, we should respect one another because were still rotten minded inhabitants of Naval Biliran.

Ironically, the essential thing is that we should be able to stand-up to our judgments of ourselves. From outside this attitude look like self-righteousness, but it is so only if we are incapable of criticizing ourselves.

If we can exercise self-criticism, criticism from outside will affect us only on the outside and not pierce to the hearth, for we feel that we have a sterner critic within us than any who could judge us from without. And anyway, there are as many opinions as there are heads to think them. Okay?

So we come to realize that our own judgment has so much value as the judgment of others. One cannot please everybody, therefore it is better to be at peace with oneself and mind your own monkey business.