This real life story - that occurred over an eight month period illustrates that trying to help destitute Pinoys - certainly when they are somewhat older - is foolish, pointless and vain. Giving money isn't doing any good, beyond very temporary relief. Every time they succeed in securing a wad of cash, they're under the impression they've finally hit the jackpot; but it turns into a fata morgana, when yet another disillusioned and abused foreigner throws in the towel. The money transfers are like sending food to kwashiorkor patients or liquor to an alcoholic; it alleviates the hunger or the...

Religion has been the most effective "tool" ever invented by rulers to organize and divide society, monopolize ad eternam power and wealth, and subjugate destitute hordes that neither have, nor ever will have, either. All these fictional cults have institutionalized an arbitrary system of "good" and "evil" that allows the auto-proclaimed earthy representatives of imaginary Gods to retain absolute power by singling out, persecuting at will and throwing to the wolves, selected groups of the downtrodden masses. Most human activities in life are aligned with gender and performed in de facto...