I could still recall the cries of people on TV as the wide media exposure brought the whole saga of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered that dreadful Boxing Day Tsunami into our living rooms. Earlier that month of December a previous series of calamities wreaked havoc in the Philippines. A super typhoon was among the four typhoons that lashed the Philippine territory in a span of three weeks according to reports.
Unknown to the whole country, another frat conflict almost succeeded to claim its victims in UP Diliman in the early part of that same month . A frat brother of mine sent an email that they were once again attacked by a bitter rival frat. What my Brods did was a "cowardly act" in the eyes of the enemy when they evaded the attackers and ran away. This has been their practice for a long time since the issue about frat violence was and still continues to be widely debated within our fraternity, especially because we have five frat brothers now in jail.
As an alumnus I tried hard to awaken them spiritually and exhorted them to avoid trouble because if their hearts are sincere for change the angels of God the Father Almighty will come to protect them as He did all these years in my life and that of my family.
All these years I was pondering...what was in the minds of those members of that aggressor frat who attacked my brods. Were they not aware that the country was still in a lot of mess and mourning for the many deaths in the Quezon Province alone because of the super typhoon?
Where were their conscience when a lot of people were trying to help and gather help for the victims of those calamities? Are their hearts too hardened to understand that committing a collective crime, even if they try to justify this as revenge or whatever, is evil? Besides, our country is, and even until now, is suffering from a lot of problems.
I'm not so sure what happened next after that incident inside the campus. But the whole UP community, as recorded in some blogs, is witness to whatever conflicts that had happened or are still happening there between rival fraternities despite the fact that the Indian Ocean Tsunami taught a lot of lessons to people in warring areas hit by that tragedy. That calamity even compelled me to write A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER soon after after my sister told me of her prophetic dream before it happened.
Fratmen...try to examine if your conscience are clouded, if your brains are blinded or if your hearts are hardened. There are a lot of problems that this world is suffering from and your God-given intellect, talents and strength are supposed to contribute to offer those much-needed remedies.
It is not a cowardly act to avoid trouble. What is cowardly is if you cannot control yourself against wrongdoing...because just in case you have committed a grave act, either you are caught or go Scott-free, you will tremble like a coward.
So please wake-up!
Unknown to the whole country, another frat conflict almost succeeded to claim its victims in UP Diliman in the early part of that same month . A frat brother of mine sent an email that they were once again attacked by a bitter rival frat. What my Brods did was a "cowardly act" in the eyes of the enemy when they evaded the attackers and ran away. This has been their practice for a long time since the issue about frat violence was and still continues to be widely debated within our fraternity, especially because we have five frat brothers now in jail.
As an alumnus I tried hard to awaken them spiritually and exhorted them to avoid trouble because if their hearts are sincere for change the angels of God the Father Almighty will come to protect them as He did all these years in my life and that of my family.
All these years I was pondering...what was in the minds of those members of that aggressor frat who attacked my brods. Were they not aware that the country was still in a lot of mess and mourning for the many deaths in the Quezon Province alone because of the super typhoon?
Where were their conscience when a lot of people were trying to help and gather help for the victims of those calamities? Are their hearts too hardened to understand that committing a collective crime, even if they try to justify this as revenge or whatever, is evil? Besides, our country is, and even until now, is suffering from a lot of problems.
I'm not so sure what happened next after that incident inside the campus. But the whole UP community, as recorded in some blogs, is witness to whatever conflicts that had happened or are still happening there between rival fraternities despite the fact that the Indian Ocean Tsunami taught a lot of lessons to people in warring areas hit by that tragedy. That calamity even compelled me to write A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER soon after after my sister told me of her prophetic dream before it happened.
Fratmen...try to examine if your conscience are clouded, if your brains are blinded or if your hearts are hardened. There are a lot of problems that this world is suffering from and your God-given intellect, talents and strength are supposed to contribute to offer those much-needed remedies.
It is not a cowardly act to avoid trouble. What is cowardly is if you cannot control yourself against wrongdoing...because just in case you have committed a grave act, either you are caught or go Scott-free, you will tremble like a coward.
So please wake-up!
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