Have you ever wondered the Existence of God.?

First of all let me ask you have you ever wondered the existence of God?, I grown up in a very conservative and religious family, We have to pray every morning when we woke up, Pray when we eat breakfast,Pray before going to our farm, pray before going to School, pray before eating lunch,and pray before eating dinner, everywhere we go we has to pray so the guardian angel will be with us all the time, and we always go to church every Sunday,I can’t remember that we ever missed one sunday, thats how we brought up with our very devoted mother, She is a church choir leader and a worship leader as well, when i was a kid, My Dad play guitar while I sing for the congregation.My father was different he is not very religious and he go out with friends sometimes and drink. He go to church with us but just for the sake on going with my mother i guess. But my father is a very hardworking Dad, but very disciplinarian, So we have to be a good kid otherwise you will have a taste on my father’s really thick belt.My mother on the other hand is different she is very sensitive woman who could not even raise her hand to his kid’s. We are seven Siblings but they brought us up with morals and dignity. But even so we are poor we are always reminded by our parents that the riches is not about materials alone but its about being a good follower of God.

Now let me ask you again? have you ever wondered the existence of God, Does God really do exist? Is there really God up there in the Universe? Some people say, You can’t prove that their is God,But also we can’t prove that God doesn’t exist?This question has been on my mind as a grow up, during those tough times we had, My Dad was really sick, and my Mum was sick as well, We really have nothing, We couldnt eat, And I was only 8 or 9 years old at that time. My father almost died at the time. In that age i was so devastated looking at my parents suffers.I started to pray asking God, why? I pray and pray and pray, But nothing happen, We start asking for food in our neighbors just to survive, That was during El-Nino our farm couldn’t produces foods due to the hit We have no rain for months,All our crops died, Until such time i told my mum, I don’t think there is God ” Ma” God doesn’t exist, you just fooling yourself for ages, We serve him all our life, yet he could not help us during this time. If he is so powerful why can’t he heal you both. My mum said he is just testing us my son, how strong our faith for him. I told my mum since you are a kid you are already serving God so that is not enough to prove your strong faith on him? My mum said, we are human, we make mistake, We sinned, we are not perfect,And Satan is always ready to attack us. God didn’t give us this illness satan does, and God will always test how strong we are,God won’t give us trials we can’t overcome, So now you better kneel and pray, keep your faith up high my son, Me and your father will be fine, Okay? I couldn’t say anything i just cried. As i grow up we have so many challenges and trials we’ve encountered but none of them we haven’t overcome.There was those time that we lost our home, we lost everything, Its another trials that test our faith from God, We started from the scratch again, yet we always overcome all those test.

We question ourselves that is there really God? But if we try to open our eyes around us, That is enough evidence that there is God, The Sun that give us light, The grass, The fruits and plants the provide us food, The animals, The mountains and the water, That should be enough evidence the existence of God,So if are still doubtful try considering this,Living things are evidence that God exists.Everything in this planet didn’t happen by accident, They happen with a reason, They happen by creation,Try to think of it, For example all those attraction we’ve seen somebody created them. The Pyramid of Egypt, The great wall of China, The Taj mahal, They are being designed and being made, So How does Planets, Stars, Oceans, Trees, Mountains, Animals, of most of all human being made? You couldn’t say they are just happen by accident, There must be powerful being who made them.They are being plan, They are being designed according to its purpose,So Believing God is really hard but it takes strong faith to do so.But Its even harder not to believed that God doesn’t exist.There must be powerful being who designed for all the living things.

Read the passage of Psalm 19:1 ”The heavens declare the glory of God, The Skies proclaim the work of his hands” Genesis 1:1 ” In the Beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.. Isaiah 44:24” I am the Lord who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone.Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself .The Humanity itself , The Human existence is the fulfillments of God existence.

Superstitions that my parents taught me.

My father was pagan before, he believe things that so unbelievable and some superstitions that i find outrageous. My father still believe some superstitions until this time though but not as what he used to be when we are a kid. Here is the list.

1. Don’t laugh or show your teeth when is having thunder and lightning cos if you do laugh and show your teeth? you’ll be struck by lightning.. One time it was raining so heavy there is lightning as well, As a kid we are playing inside the house, and laughing, Our Dad saw us. He grab each of us and cut bits of our hair in order to stop the lightning from striking us.

2. Don’t sweep your floor going towards the front door, You must sweep it going towards the backward cos the good fortune will be swept away.

3.Be prepared when a black butterfly come in inside your house cos one relatives or member of your family has passed away and that is her spirit visiting you.Which i find it unreal i’ve seen many times but nothing has happen really.On the other hand if you see white butterfly you must celebrate cos the wealth is coming.

4. Dont eat in two plate because you will become unfaithful to your future partner.

5. Don’t sleep when your hair still wet cos you will be or crazy blind.I did it lots of times I still can see lol

6.Jump as high as you can during new years day so youll grow taller

7.If you have sore eyes, Don’t worry just save your urine as early in the morning and wash it to your eyes you’ll be health right away.. ( I dont think so mine wasnt lol)

8. If you take picture, Dont take group yourself into three, As one of you will die.( Scary isnt )

9. If you are pregnant and you wanted twin babies, Just find twin bananas, and you’ll give birth twin babies.

10. A single man or woman who always sing when he/she cook will get marry a widower. Although its okay to sing in the shower though. :)

11. If you bite your tongue it means somebody is talking about you. Somebody is backbiting you.and some also believe somebody is thinking on you. So a friend of yours must say any number, And find that number correspond to aphabital. If its 1, means its A and the person who is thinking of you his name begins with letter A.

12. Don’t comb your hair during the night cos your parents will die soon if you do. I was combing my hair one time and i was hit my father right away, and I ask him why he did it. He said to me. Do you want us to die soon? I couldn’t believe what i heard.

13. If you eat pancit/ noodles during your birthday you will have a long life.

14.If you get lost somewhere, Don’t worry just invert your shirts and you’ll find your own way back.

I still have a lot more but couldn’t remember some of them anymore. Thats only i can remember at the moment. So feel free to comment below your superstitions you’ve learned as you grow up. Thank you.

After life Does Exist?

As i grow up its has been a question on my mind if there is really afterlife, If do we really have a soul? what will happen when we die?There has been a studies about this claim, Some people had experience this, Some people has a nearly death situation and they returned to their bodies as they say.Is it really real or just hallucination?But lets pause for a minute.

According to Harvard University Doctor, Dr, Alexander, He doesn’t believe the existence of life after death, But with just one twist that change him for a lifetime, When he experience it himself, Dr. Alexander had a coma for seven days when he was having severe meningitis,During those coma he experience something so different outside of his body, Which is made my hair grow while listening to his story.he have this vivid journey of what he called after life, He went to both heavenly and so not heavenly realms.But thank be to God, Miracles happen, Against all odds he was able to returned to his body,And completely healed his life was totally change, The Doctor that does not believe that existence of after life, Now become an author of the best selling book.” Proof of Heaven by Dr Alexander.

Dr Alexander confirms that there is really a life after death,Our life on earth is just temporary There is eternal life that waiting for us when we die,Our soul will lived forever.

According to Dr Alexander

– The experience of the afterlife was so “real” and expansive that the experience of living as a human on Earth seemed like an artificial dream by comparison.

– The fabric of the afterlife was pure LOVE. Love dominated the afterlife to such a huge degree that the overall presence of evil was infinitesimally small. If you wish to know the Universe, know Love.

– In the afterlife, all communication was telepathic. There was no need for spoken words, nor even any separation between the self and everything else happening around you. All the questions you asked in your mind were immediately answered to you telepathically as well.

When asked what he wants everyone to know about the spiritual realm, he always answers saying that you are precious and infinitely loved more than you can possibly imagine. You are always safe. You are never alone. The unconditional and perfect Love of God neglects not one soul.

“Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything. Not some abstract, hard-to-fathom kind of love but the day-to-day kind that everyone knows-the kind of love we feel when we look at our spouse and our children, or even our animals. In its purest and most powerful form, this love is not jealous or selfish, but unconditional.

This is the reality of realities, the incomprehensibly glorious truth of truths that lives and breathes at the core of everything that exists or will ever exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of who and what we are can be achieved by anyone who does not know it, and embody it in all of their actions.”

Now let’s talk credibility for a minute. What makes this experience so much more significant than another NDE account? Eben’s neocortex was completely nonfunctional during the time of his coma do to his severe bacterial meningitis, so there is no scientific account for why he experienced this. In fact, he gives refutations to 9 different possible scientific explanations for his experience in his book.

Exploring Naturalistic Explanations

Let’s take a look at 5 potential explanations he outlines in Appendix B of “Proof of Heaven”. Some are of his explanations would make no sense to us as laymen untrained in neuroscientific terminology, so here are the most common explanations he refutes, all of which are taken verbatim from his book:

1. A primitive brainstem program to ease terminal pain and suffering (“evolutionary argument” – possibly as a remnant of feigned-death strategies from lower mammals?). This did not explain the robust, richly interactive nature of the recollections.

2. The distorted recall of memories from deeper parts of the limbic system (for example, the lateral amygdala) that have enough overlying brain to be relatively protected from the meningitic inflammation, which occurs mainly at the brain’s surface. This did not explain the robust, richly interactive nature of the recollections.

3. DMT dump. DMT, a naturally occurring serotonin agonist causes vivid hallucinations and a dream-like state. I am personally familiar with drug experiences related to serotonin agonist/antagonists (LSD) from my teen years in the early 70s. I have had no personal experience with DMT but have seen patients under its influence. The rich ultra-reality would still require fairly intact auditory and visual neocortex as target regions in which to generate such a rich audiovisual experience as I had in a coma. Prolonged coma due to bacterial meningitis had badly damaged my neocortex, which is where all of the serotonin from the raphe nuclei in my brainstem (or DMT, a serotonin agonist) would have had effects on visual/auditory experiences. But my cortex was off, and the DMT would have no place in the brain to act.

4. A reboot phenomenon – a random dump of bizarre dis-jointed memories due to old memories in the damaged neocortex, which might occur on restarting the cortex into consciousness after a prolonged system-wide failure, as in my diffuse meningitis. Especially given the intricacies of my elaborate recollections, this seems most unlikely.

5. Unusual memory generation through an archaic visual pathway through the midbrain, prominently used in birds but only rarely identifiable in humans. It can be demonstrated in humans who are cortically blind, due to occipital cortex. It provided no clue as to the ultra-reality I witnessed and failed to explain the auditory-visual interleaving.

His NDE account stands as the most credible account of all time, and coming from his materialistic scientific background, we have good reason to believe that he really did have a vivid encounter with something beyond this world.

What is the rooms like of Pinay Domestic Helper in Hongkong?

A Coconaut who is a domestic worker in Hong Kong has sent us photos of what she claims to be her sleeping quarters at her employer's residence near Central.

“I’ve been working in Hong Kong for eight years and it’s my first time to encounter this kind of room,” she said via Facebook. She started working for her current employer two years ago.

She tells us that her "room" – if it can be called that – is only 170 centimeters long and 69 centimeters wide. The tiny narrow bed has a wooden "wall" on one side and is pushed up against the room’s actual walls on the other side.

The result is that lying down in that bed is like “sleeping in a coffin,” described our reader, who is from the Philippines and wishes to remain anonymous.

“It looks like a cabinet with a bed,” she laments.

Though it appears as there is space outside of the bed-shelf-room combo, she tells us that the area is not part of her sleeping quarters.

In fact, a washing machine is right next to her bed.

“It seems I always have nightmares every time I go to my bed and of course I need to sacrifice or endure the back pain. I can't move properly, I can't even stretch [out my hands]."

“I need my job so I have to endure the pain!”

Domestic workers’ living quarters came under scrutiny last week when a new development at LOHAS Park was revealed to have maid’s rooms that were not even big enough to house a single bed.

This story originally appeared in Coconuts Hong Kong.