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Love's Competition
Charles Haddon Spurgeon February 2, 1890 Scripture: Luke 7:42, 43 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 36
Love's Competition
"Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged."— Luke vii. 42, 43.
I REMEMBER seeing, somewhere or other, as a sign upon an inn, the words "The First and Last." I do not know what that may happen to be among men, but I know that love is God's first and last. It is there that he begins with us in mercy— "We love him, because he first loved us." His love at the first springs up like a fountain in the midst of a desert, and freely flows along the wilderness to the unworthy sons of men. In the end, the result of that love is that men love him: they cannot help it any more than the rock can prevent the echo when the voice falls upon it. Love is not a creature of law: it comes not on demand, it must be free or not at all. It has its reasons why it springs up in our hearts; but it is not a mercenary thing which can be procured at such and such a price. It is not a matter of argument: it is not to itself an act performed as a matter of duty. Love is a duty certainly, but it does not come to us that way: it comes to us like a roe or a young hart, over every mountain and hill, leaping and bounding; it comes not as a heavy burden dragged along an iron way. If a man should give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Men do not make themselves love by a course of calculation; but they are overtaken with it, and carried away by its power. When godly men consider and enjoy the great love of God to them, they begin to love God in return; just as the bud, when it feels the sunshine, opens to it of its own accord. Love to God is a sort of natural consequence which follows from a sight and sense of the love of God to us. I think it is Aristotle who says that it is impossible for a person to know that he is loved without feeling some degree of love in return. I do not know how that may be, for I am no philosopher; but I am sure that it is so with those who taste of the love of God. As love is the first blessing coming from God to us, so it is the last return from us to God: he comes to us loving, we go home to him loving.
I. I intend to keep to my text, and handle it red hot, by first noticing that IT IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED THAT PARDONED SINNERS WILL
LOVE. "Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?" It is implied that the two debtors who had been frankly forgiven would both love their benefactor. The question was not "Which of them will love him?" but "Which of them will love him most?" So, then, I say, it is taken for granted in the text that those who are pardoned will love him who has so freely pardoned them.
And this, first, because it seems most natural that where kindness is received gratitude should he felt. This is so generally admitted that gratitude is found among the lowest and worst of mankind. "If ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them." It is man-like to return good for good, and ingratitude is looked upon most rightly as one of the basest of the vices. Why, we find gratitude not only in men and women— intelligent creatures— but we find it in the very beasts of the field! "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib." How a dog that has received benefits from you will be attached to you, and by every possible means will endeavour to show his affection! The ancients had many rare stories of the gratitude of wild beasts. You remember that of Androcles and the lion. The man was condemned to be torn to pieces by beasts; but a lion, to which he was cast, instead of devouring him, licked his feet, because at some former time Androcles had extracted a thorn from the grateful creature's foot. We have heard of an eagle that so loved a boy with whom he had played that, when the child was sick, the eagle sickened too; and when the child slept, this wild, strange bird of the air would sleep, but only then; for when the child awoke, the eagle awoke. When the child died, the bird died too. You remember that there is a picture in which Napoleon is represented as riding over the battlefield, and he stops his horse, as he sees a slain man with his favourite dog lying upon his bosom doing what he can to defend his poor dead master. Even the great man-slayer paused at such a sight. There is gratitude among the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the air. And, surely, if we receive favours from God, and do not feel love to him in return, we are worse than brute beasts; and so the Lord, in that pathetic verse in Isaiah, pleads against us, "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." If we receive favours from God, it is but natural that we should love him in return. Alas, that many should be so unnatural, so false to every noble instinct, so dead to the gratitude which goodness deserves!
But gratitude should surely arise when the benefit is surpassingly great. When favours are far above the common run of blessings— when these favours are not such as are confined to time and to the body, but when they reach to eternity and bless the soul; when favours are of such weight as the forgiveness of sin, the salvation of the soul from wrath to come; surely here love must spring up with the greatest force and freedom. I would stand and sing to the fountain of the heart as Israel did in the wilderness, "Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it: The princes digged the well." And has not our great Prince, who has been smitten upon the cheek, digged this well by giving us, through his free grace and dying love, to taste of full remission and of complete pardon of our guilt? Shall we not, must we not, love the Redeemer in return? To have sin forgiven and not to love God! I call common ingratitude worse than brutish; but in this case where shall I go for a word? I must call it devilish. It were worse than infernal to receive a deliverance from guilt so great, and from punishment so justly terrible, and not to love the Lord, through whom it is given to us. Oh, love the Lord, whose mercy endureth for ever! If, indeed, you have tasted of that mercy, you must love him. It cannot be otherwise — you are bound to God by bonds of love, and these draw you, by a secret but irresistible force, to love the Lord in return.
And moreover, not only is this natural and necessary, because of the greatness of the mercy, but the grace of God always takes care that wherever pardon is given love shall be ensured; for the Holy Spirit co-operates with the work of Christ, and if we are cleansed from the stain of our former evil through the blood of Christ, we are renewed and changed in the spirit of our minds by the Holy Spirit. He does not take away our sin, and then leave us that old heart of stone, insensible, ungrateful; but as he gives us a garment of righteousness he gives us a heart of flesh. The Spirit works in us a degree of love at the same time that he creates the first look of faith. Anon our faith increases by which we received remission, and then he works in us more and more that love to Christ by which we cling to him. This love works in us hatred of sin and a spirit of obedience, whereby we yield ourselves up to the service of him who has bought us with his precious blood. You know that it is so, brethren. Where pardon comes, delight in God comes with it. You know that God does not divide his gifts, and give justification to one and sanctification to another; but the covenant is one, and the blessings of the covenant are threaded on the one string of infinite wisdom, so that when there comes the washing in the blood, there comes also a cleansing with water by the Word. The Holy Spirit washes us from the power of sin, as the blood of Christ cleanses us from the guilt of sin. Where sin is forgiven, there must be love to the God who forgave it, because the Spirit of God makes sure work upon the heart of the believer, and one of his first works is love.
I need not argue this further, because all Christians know this as a matter of fact — where there is no love there is no pardon. You cannot be pardoned, and not love God as a result of his loving forgiveness. What was the very first emotion that you and I felt when we had a sense of guilt removed? We felt joy for our own sake; but immediately after, or at the same instant, we felt such intense gratitude to God that we loved him beyond all expression. We have sometimes been half afraid that we do not love God so much now as we did at that moment, though I trust that the fear is groundless. But at that moment there was nothing too hot or too heavy for us to have attempted on behalf of him who had taken the burden from off our shoulder. We would have said at that moment, "Here am I; send me," if it had been to prison, or to death. Oh, the joy of those first days! They are rightly called the days of our espousals. And what love we had then! We were willing to leave all for Christ's sake. We snapped fond connections at his command. Truly, like Israel of old, we would have gone after our God into the wilderness— ay, after our Saviour into the grave. Nothing could have kept us back, or have caused us to wander from him then. Do you not remember how you used to long for Sabbath-days, to hear of Jesus, and praise his name with his people? If there was a week-night service, you were always there, though no one persuaded you to go. Then, any corner in the meetinghouse was good enough for you. Now, perhaps, you want a very soft cushion to sit upon. You sat then in a straight-backed pew, and did not know it. Now, you want very tender dealing; and the preacher must mind that he interests you by illustrations and poetical allusions; but then the gospel itself interested you; and however dull the preacher might have been, you were so willing to hear about Jesus, and to know of his love, that there you were, eager to hear the humblest evangelist. Wisdom did not need to press you into her house, for you were earnestly waiting at the posts of her doors, glad to hear even the footfalls of those who came in and out. Oh, those were brave days! I hope that we have braver days now; but, for certain, as sure as we knew our pardon, we felt that we loved the Lord with all our hearts.
Now I want to make a little practical use of this inference from the text. That pardoned souls love their pardoning God is a great truth, and a very solemn one in its bearings upon us at this time, for there are persons in this house of prayer who were never forgiven; and we are sure of that unhappy fact, since they do not love God. Their sins must be still upon them, because they have not the token of pardon, inasmuch as they have no love to Jesus Christ our Lord.
Oh, listen to me, ye that do not love God, and yet, perhaps, dream that you are saved! Are there not some here that seldom think of God, who do not care if a day, a week, a month, a year, should pass over their heads, and yet they have no thought of the Almighty Judge of all the earth? They receive his mercies; but they do not thank him. They feel his power; but they do not fear him. "God is not in all their thoughts." O my hearer, if this be your case, you do not love him; for if we love any person, we are sure to think of him. Thoughts fly that way in which the heart moves. I do not say that we are always thinking of those we love; but I do say that our thoughts will fly that way when they can. You know at sunset where the crows live. Perhaps all day long you are unable to tell; for they may fly from one ploughed field to another to find their meat. But watch when night comes on, and when they are free from other obligations, and wish to find rest; they fly straight to those tall trees whereon they have built their nests. A man may, in the busy time of the day, think about fifty things; but let him be free from pressing labour and care, and he returns to his love as birds fly to their nests at night. His thought flies to Jesus, because Jesus is the home of his heart. If your hearts love God, your thoughts will run to him as the rivers run to the sea. Yea, and often in the very middle of business, the man who loves his God will be speaking with him. He may not interrupt the conversation, and those in the shop may not know what is on his mind; but his heart will be up above the mountains, where the angels dwell, communing with the great Father of lights. But where there is no thought of God, there is no love to him. Are there not many who never do anything for God? He has made them, and he preserves them, and yet they never make him any return by way of willing action designed to give him pleasure. I may put it to some of you— did you ever do anything distinctly for God in all your lives? What! Not so much as once? Ah, me! a man so curiously made by the divine finger, displaying infinite skill in every blood-vessel, and nerve, and muscle, that are necessary for his life and motion, and yet he has never thought of the Great One who has set all this machinery in motion, and keeps it in action! To live only by God, and yet to live without him! Strange! Can there exist a man who never does anything for his God, who is constantly doing so much for him? If so, I would say to such a one— You have never been pardoned; for you do not love God, since you never think of him, and you do nothing for him.
Some men evidently do not love God, for they have no care about anything that concerns him. They do not refrain from sin because sin would grieve God. The idea of grieving God, perhaps, has not crossed their minds; so they vex the Holy Spirit most thoughtlessly. But, ah! if you love anyone, you will not like to cause him grief: you will not do the evil thing which he hates. Ho that loves God will often have a check put upon him, and feel that he cannot do this great wickedness, and sin against God. To sin against God is the greatest of sin, and the essence of sin. The venom of sin lies there. This makes sin so exceeding sinful, that it is against the God of love. But if you never felt that, then you do not love him; and, for certain, you are not forgiven.
Look at others: they do not love God, for they do not care for his house where his people meet. They seldom come to the meeting for worship; and if they come, it is from some other motive than to meet with God. They do not care for his day. Sundays are very dreary in London, so they say. There is nothing to interest them, for they have no interest in the great Father, or his incarnate Son; they have no care to hear of him, or to praise him, or to pray to him. They do not care for his Book, though it is a world of delights and comforts. The Bible is perfumed with the love of God, but they perceive not its fragrance. The Saviour's face is to be seen reflected in almost every page, and yet some think that the Bible is more dull than an old almanack; and, though they must keep it in their house— for it is respectable to have a copy of it— yet to read it, and to read it with pleasure— why, that has never happened to them; nor is there any likelihood that it ever will unless they get made anew.
Nor do they care for God's people. In fact, they like a quiet joke against Christian people; and sometimes, if they can see faults in them— and, oh, how readily they may! — they report those faults with considerable exaggerations, and feel pleased to eat up the faults of God's people as they eat bread! Want of love to the children argues want of love to their Father. "He that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him;" and we know that we love God when we love his children. But if in your heart there is no such love to his children, to his Book, to his day, to his house, or to his service, you may rest quite certain, my friend, that your guilt clings to you still. You are unpardoned, and God will require that which is past, and call you to account. For every secret thing he will bring you into judgment, and for every idle word that you have spoken he will take reckoning of you. Ah! how sad it is that when I am longing to speak joyously about the love that arises out of pardoned sin, I am compelled, for pity's sake, to turn aside to give a warning to many who, having no love to God, prove by that fact that they have never been forgiven!
So I leave the first point. It is supposed in the text, and taken for granted, that all pardoned sinners will love him who has pardoned them.
II. But now, secondly, IT IS SUGGESTED IN THE TEXT, THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENCES OF DEGREE IN THE MATTER OF LOVE TO GOD. "Tell me which of them will love him most." These words evidently show that some persons love God more than others, and that, albeit there must be a sincere love to God in all pardoned sinners, yet there is not the same degree of love. Love is evidently a grace which is not stereotyped, and cast in a mould, so as to be the same in every case, and at every time. Love is a thing of life: it is, therefore, a thing of growth. It is certainly so in our own selves. There was a time when we did not love God so much as we do now; and I grieve to say that there are even now times when we do not love God so much as we once did, for we grow cold and backsliding. Love is not like a piece of cast iron, fixed and set; but it grows, and has its times of budding, flowering, and leaf-shedding. It is like a fire; at one time it may burn low, and at another time it may be blown up to a very vehement heat. Love rises and falls: I speak not of God's love to us; but of our love to God. It has its ups and downs, its summers and its winters, its flood-tides and its ebbs; and if we find a change in love, in the same heart, we are not at all astonished that it should differ in different hearts.
Besides, we know that there are differences in love, because there are differences in all the other graces. Faith— some men have much faith. God be thanked that there are men of strong faith still on the face of the earth! But there are others who have a faith which, though a true faith, is a very weak one. It is a trembling faith. It cannot walk the waves with Peter, but it can sink with him, and it can cry out for deliverance. Faith, in some Christians, seems to be a very feeble affair. As I said the other day, they hardly know whether it is faith or unbelief. Their cry is, "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief," as if they had made a mistake in calling it faith at all, for it was so mixed with unbelief. It is not always such an infant grace, for there are strong believers, who have turned to flight the armies of the aliens — men who have borne their cross without impatience, and their testimony without cowardice: men who have conquered sin, and lived in holiness, and brought glory to God. Faith, like a ladder, has its lower and its higher rounds. Faith has its dawning, its noon, its shade. We are sure that it is so, for we have observed it in ourselves, and seen it in others. We have seen it great, and we have seen it little.
The practical point I would reach is just this. Let us look, first of all, to our love in its sincerity. What if my love may not be compared with yours as to degree? Yet the Lord grant that I may truly love him. Peter could not say that he loved Christ more than others, but he did say, "Thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee." A little pearl is a pearl as much as a great one, though every one of us would sooner have the greater pearl. There is the Queen's image on a fourpenny piece as certainly as there is upon the sovereign: though we would all prefer the golden coin. There is the image of God on all his people's faith and love, whether great or little. The main thing with the coin is to be sure that it is genuine metal. So, if love be real love, that is the main point. Do you love the Lord with all your heart? If so, strive to have more love, but do not fling away what you have, for you would thus despise what the Spirit of God has wrought in you.
Endeavour also, dear friends, to have growing love. Do not be satisfied to be to-day what you were twelve months ago. I am afraid that some Christians do not grow much. I am very glad when I see them grow downward, when they are rooted in humility, when they have truer views of themselves than they ever yet had, and a deeper sense of their indebtedness to God. That is good growth. Try to have, however, a love that grows, so that you may more forcibly love Jesus Christ than you did in days that are past. Do say to yourself, "Well, if I have ever so little love, it shall be practical love, I will show it. I will be doing something for my Lord." The woman, by whose means this parable was called forth, loved Christ so that she brought her alabaster box of ointment, and anointed his feet, and washed them with tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. And one of the best ways to make love grow is to use all the love you have. Is it not so with merchants and their money? If they want to increase their capital, they trade with it. If you want to increase your love to Jesus, use it. Do not merely talk about it, but actually serve him under its sweet constraint. It is a very poor Christianity that consists in sitting still and dreaming, and never attempting any practical service for Jesus, our Lord. He that thinks that he will quietly enjoy religion all alone, will soon find that he has very little of it to enjoy; for doubts and fears will breed in swarms in a stagnant atmosphere. Where there is none of the blessed wind of activity, there will soon be mists and damps— perhaps foul gas and fevers.
And if you have but little love at present, cry to God to give you an intenser love; and, though I have said that to use your love is a good way to increase it, yet there is something still better, and that is, to know more, and feel more of the love of Christ to you. If you take exercise, you will increase your sense of warmth; but it will be a far surer thing if you get where the sun shines with equatorial heat: so other means are good, but to get near to Jesus is best of all. In proportion as you live close to the glorious central sun of the love of Christ, you will yourself be warm. I was about to compare the heart of my Lord to a volcanic mountain constantly streaming with the burning lava of love. Oh, that my soul could but get that tire-stream poured into it to set the whole of my nature on fire, and consume me in the flame-torrent of love!
You see that it is suggested in the text that there are differences in the degrees of love; and there let us leave it, for we must come to the third point.
III. Thirdly, THE TEXT PUTS TO US A QUESTION, WHO WILL LOVE HIM MOST?"
I want to introduce the question to you by saying that it is a very interesting one. After what the Lord has done for us, one takes pleasure in thinking what will come of it. One likes to think of the farmer's harvest. After all that ploughing and sowing, what will come of it? It is interesting to begin to calculate the crop, and to anticipate the shouts of harvest-home. Now, what will come of infinite love, the supreme act of God's heart to men? What will come out of the gift of his Only-begotten Son, and the putting away of sin through the death of Jesus? What will men do for God after this? How much will they love him? It is an interesting question. What have you to say upon it?
And it is a personal question, which the Lord puts to each one of us. You know he put it to Simon. "Tell me," said he, "which of them will love him most?" And he puts it to us to consider it, to turn it over, and to give our own verdict; because there may be some blunder in our heart which this question is meant to set right; and the thoughts which the enquiry will cause in the spirit are meant to correct our judgments. Therefore do not put it aside, but try now to answer it as the Lord puts it.
It is a practical question— "Which of them will love him most?"— for everything in conduct depends upon love. Where there is much love, there is sure to be much service in proportion to the strength. Give us a church that loves Christ Jesus much. You will have mighty prayer-meetings; you will have a holy membership; you will have liberal giving to the cause of Christ; you will have hearty praising of his name; you will have careful walking before the world; you will have earnest endeavours for the conversion of sinners. Missions at home and abroad will be set on foot when love is fervent. When the heart is right, everything is likely to be right; but when the heart goes wrong, oh, what a fatal thing it is! A disease of the heart is looked upon as the worst of mischiefs that can happen to a man. One old doctor of my acquaintance used to say, "We can do nothing with the heart." God keep us from a diseased heart: a fatty degeneration of the heart, or an ossification of the heart towards the Lord Jesus Christ!
The question asked in the text is, however, a somewhat limited one. It is this. The question is not, who in all the world will love Christ most? — but who out of two persons, in whom there is no particular difference of character, but only this one difference— that the one owes five hundred pence, and the other fifty— which out of these two will love Christ most? We will suppose that they are equally tender of heart, and equally regenerate; and that they do know, each of them, certainty, that his debt has been discharged. The only difference between them is that one has been a grosser sinner than the other; and the question asked is, "Which of those two will love the Saviour most?"
It is a very simple question, too, not at all hard to answer; for even this Simon, the Pharisee, who, like the rest of the Pharisees, was very badly instructed, yet, nevertheless, could see his way to answer the question correctly. So he answered, "I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most;" and the Lord replied, "Thou hast rightly judged. Thus I have set before you the question.
IV. And so, lastly, IT IS EXPECTED THAT WE GIVE A REPLY; and I do wish for myself— and therefore wish the same for you— that each one of us may say, "I am the man that ought to love the Lord Jesus most; and by his grace I will surely do so."
The most indebted should love most. Have we not here many five-hundred-pence debtors? Some of my dear brethren here present were among outward sinners the very chief—men who could drink, and swear, and lie, ringleaders in everything that was evil. Blessed be God that such have been here led to Jesus! We heard the other night a dear brother tell us of what he used to be. With modesty and shamefacedness he mentioned how great his sin had been; but his sin was put away; he was pardoned, and he knew it, and rejoiced in it. Such a man must say, "I will love him most." Where there has been overt sin, palpable, undeniable— where the outward character has been defiled and stained with it, forgiveness involves us in deep obligation to grateful love. You may stand in the front rank, and love Jesus most.
But I am not going to let you rise to that eminence of obligation, or rather sink to that depth of indebtedness without having a struggle for it myself. Some of us take that place of eminent obligation on another ground, and yet it is the same ground; for while some of us never were openly profane, or drunken, or immoral, we have to confess the equal greatness of our sin on account of our offending against light and knowledge, against early convictions, against a holy training, against a tender conscience, against singular favours received from God; and therefore with shame we begin to take the lowest room, acknowledging that to us belongs the greatest debt of grateful praise to God. When I was preaching once I said— and I meant it— that I should be the deepest debtor to divine grace that ever entered the gates of glory, and I ventured to say—
"Then loudest of the crowd I'll sing,
While heaven's resounding mansions ring,
With shouts of sovereign grace."
It was in a country place, and as I came down the pulpit stairs many clustered about me to shake hands, and one old lady said to me, "You made one great blunder in your sermon." I said, "My dear soul, I dare say I made a score. I am a great blunderer." "No," said she, "but you said that you would sing the loudest when you get to heaven; but you shall not, for I owe more to divine grace than you possibly can do. I was once a great sinner, and I have had much forgiven, and therefore I shall praise God more than you." I did not yield the point, but I held my tongue. I could let her be first, and yet take the same place myself. As I went down the aisle many friends declared that they would not give way to me in that point, and that they ought to praise God more than I, for they owed him more. It was a happy controversy. It reminded me of Ralph Erskine's Contention among the Birds of Paradise, where he represents the saints in glory, each saying that he shall lie the lowest, and shall praise the most sweetly the infinite love of God. I think that there are grounds upon which some here, who have been kept from everything which is outwardly evil, may, nevertheless, feel that inwardly they are five hundred pence debtors; and so, when the question is asked, "Which will love him most?" they will say, "Why, I! I was not so honest as some of those wicked fellows, I did not dare to say all they said, nor to be openly vile as they were; but I was quite as bad at heart, and if I dare have had my full swing, I should have been as base as they were."
But I do not think that the spirit of the parable is exhausted by either of these cases. I think it includes more. There are some who evidently have not had more forgiven than others as to outward sin; on the contrary, they have been prudently brought up from their childhood, and yet for many a year they have been foremost in service, and have been special lovers of the Lord. Though by no means great offenders in their unconverted state, they are certainly great saints now; intense in their service, consistent in their character, fervent in their love. How is it that some who shout that they have been snatched from the burning, and according to their own statement were the very chief of sinners, and make a great trumpet-blowing over their own conversion, yet do not love the Lord Jesus one half so much as these dear, quiet souls who never went into open sin? I take it, the reason is this. Our estimate of sin is, after all, the thing which will create and inflame our love; for if a man thinks sin to be exceeding sinful, and feels it to be so, he has a deeper sense of his indebtedness than the man who may have committed grosser vices, but has never seen them in their real blackness, as they appear in the light of God's countenance. Too many believers know little of what it is to be amazed and astounded at the heinousness of their transgressions. Why, time was with me — and is now — when, if I had inadvertently spoken a word that was not exactly true, it cost me more pain to think of what was only a hasty error than it has cost many men to repent of their cursing and swearing. I am sorry to say it, but I believe that some make a glory of their shame, and dare to brag of what they used to be. They stand up and make confession without a tear in their eye, or a blush on their cheek. Such testimony ought never to be heard, for it is a positive creator of evil in the minds of those that hear it. I am sorry to have to say it: but I know that it is so. Testimonies are published which are provocatives to vice, and rather tend to make men immoral than to make them turn to God. In certain circles he is treated as a hero who can prove that he has been a great rascal. It was not thus that the prodigal was received by his father: he never hung up his old rags as a trophy. O brethren, when we talk about what we were, we had better veil our faces. Our former follies are things to be confessed to God in secret; and if they must be spoken in public, to the praise of divine grace, there must be a careful avoidance of anything like boasting, for it is a shame even to speak of the things that were done of them in secret. When there is really a deep sense of sin, there is a holy, delicate way of speaking of it. Old sins are not to be talked of as an old soldier shoulders his crutch, and shows how fields were won. A crimson blush is the best colour to wear when we speak of our lost estate. To talk smilingly of injuries done to the delicacy of our own conscience, of awful injuries done to others by a foul example, is not to glorify God, but to enthrone vice.
And, dear friends, I believe that some, whom God has preserved by preventing grace from going into great sin, will, nevertheless, love him most because they have a clearer view than others of what it cost in order that they might be pardoned. Happy are they who remember well the griefs of our Lord in the garden of Gethsemane
"There's ne'er a gift his hand bestows
But cost his heart a groan."
Oh, if your heart dwells on Calvary, where falls the crimson shower of Christ's most precious blood— if you gaze intently upon the wounds of Jesus till you die into the death of the Crucified, then do you love much. It is well to have the soul tom with anguish because
"It cost HIM cries and tears
To bring us near to God:
Great was our debt, and he appears
To make the payment good."
For, in proportion as you estimate the sacrifice, you will love him whose own self was the sacrifice for sin. Brethren, I hope you all love Christ Jesus more than I do; for I would have him possess the highest love of every human heart: and yet I will not be willingly excelled by any one of you in a competition of love to Jesus. I will run my very best that no man take my crown.
But supposing, dear friends, any of you do love him most, then show it, just as that woman did who brought the alabaster box of precious ointment. If you love him most, do most. Do everything that is possible to humanity, quickened by the Spirit of God. If you have done much, do ten times more. Never talk of what you have done, but go on to something else. An officer rode up to his general, and said, "Sir, we have taken two guns from the enemy." "It is well," said the general, "Take two more."
"If you have most love to Christ, do most spiritual good to men. Yet do somewhat distinctly for Jesus. It is a blessed token for good when our work among men is not so much for the sake of sinners as for love of Jesus. When we love the brethren, it should be because they belong to Christ. It is sweet to serve the Lord Christ himself. See how the holy woman offered homage distinctly to her Lord: tears for his travel-stains, hair to wipe his feet, ointment to anoint his flesh Do your choicest and best for Jesus, for Jesus personally.
Try to do it most humbly. Stand behind him. Do not ask anybody to look at you. Do it very quietly. Do it, feeling that it is a great honor to be permitted to do the least service for Jesus. Do not dream of saying, "I am somebody. I am doing great things. I do more even than Simon, the Pharisee. Come see my zeal for the Lord of hosts." Jehu talked in that fashion; but he was good for nothing. Do your personal part without seeking to be seen of men.
Do it self-sacrificingly. Bring your best ointment. Pinch yourself for Christ. Make sacrifices — go without this and that to have something wherewith you can do him honour.
Do it very penitently. When you serve him best, still let the tears fall on his feet, mingling with the costly ointment. The tears and the ointment go well together. Mourn your guilt, while you rejoice in his grace.
Do it continuously. "This woman," said Christ, "since I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet." Do not leave off loving him and serving him. Do it on, and on, and on, however much the flesh may ask for respite from service.
Do it enthusiastically. See how she kissed his feet; nothing less than this would express her love. Stoop down, and kiss and kiss again those blessed feet which travelled so far in love for you. Throw your whole soul into your deed of love. "Why," they will say, "Mrs. So-and-so is enthusiastic. She is quite carried away by her zeal." Let it be true, more and more. Never mind what the cold-hearted think, for they cannot understand you. They will say, "Ah! that young person is too fast by half." Never mind. Be faster still. Wise people cry out, "He has too many irons in the fire." But I say to you, blow up the fire; get all the irons red hot; and hammer away with all your might. With all your strength and energy plunge into the service of your Master. If you love your Master, you can best show your love by ardent service. The Lord bless you with the utmost degree of love, for Jesus Christ's sake! Amen.


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A tragic abortion law that forces 1,000 girls under the age of 14 to give birth within a year after being "raped by relatives"
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Paraguay's abortion law means that 1,000 girls under the age of 14 were forced to give birth in just one year, Amnesty International reported.
The family has been found to be the largest perpetrator of sexual violence, with more than 80 percent of cases occurring in the family.
"Everyone in a dignified and happy childhood", the banner says:
Between 2019 and 2020, at least 1,000 girls under the age of 14 gave birth and 12,000 teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19 gave birth, according to NGOs.
Paraguay's strict abortion law also meant that girls and women in need of access to abortion could not have an abortion. This practice is largely prohibited unless the woman, girl, or adolescent develops complications that endanger her life.
This means that rape, unwanted pregnancies, or lack of financial viability are all unconditional reasons why someone can seek an abortion.
This result means that girls between the ages of 10 and 19 are overestimated for maternal mortality, accounting for 1 in 10 deaths in Paraguay. Amnesty International also reports that girls and teens in this age group account for 13% of deaths from unsafe abortions. It is also the leading cause of maternal death worldwide.
"In most cases, the perpetrators are the victim's stepfathers, fathers, grandfathers, neighbors, or uncles," the report said, "they are girls, not mothers."
"This is someone who aims to be a trusted person or referrer with unlimited access to a child."
In an interview with an obstetrician in the right to health movement, an unnamed health care worker said that the health of a woman or child must be in dire condition for an abortion to be granted.
"It's terrible that doctors don't offer abortion options, especially if their lives are at stake, that is, dying from a biological point of view," they said.
"They don't know how their life projects are truncated. They must have the threat of high blood pressure, serious infections, preterm birth and miscarriage. Otherwise," Pregnant girls are fine. " "
The effects of these oppressive laws and the high rates of child sexual violence are evident. According to Equality Now, South American countries are one of the highest pregnancies in children and adolescents in Latin America, with 20% of girls experiencing sexual violence reported to be under the age of 15.
In 2015, the controversial case of an 11-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather and refused to have an abortion led to national protests and international criticism.
Paraguayan officials refused her proceedings, even though her stepfather was arrested and her mother was charged with negligence.
As a result, natural childbirth was considered too dangerous, and the girl gave birth by caesarean section in August 2015.
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Q: Where to save/store unix function? This is probably a very basic question but I could not find a good answer anywhere, also sorry I didn't post this to the Unix version of StackExchange I didn't want to create an account for a simple question. Heads up I'm using a Mac, so not sure if that will effect the answer
I created a unix function
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My problem is I don't know where I should write/save the function.
I put this function in my .bashrc but when I try calling tap it does not work. Is there something I should do to activate it? I did source .bashrc but this did not work. Where should I put it.

A: Save it as a file.
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The need for an anti-discrimination law in the Philippines
Posted by JoeAm on June 7, 2019 · 46 Comments
Manila Immigration office, flooded with Chinese immigrants [Photo from Nikkei Asian Review, by Kimberly dela Cruz]
Filipinos generally treat other races with polite consideration. They are courteous to whites, Chinese, Japanese, and everyone else except perhaps blacks, as far as I can judge. Dark-skinned Filipinos are often ridiculed or otherwise treated badly. Women are not discriminated against in the job market, but everyday language is often discriminatory (the President's rape 'jokes'). The Duterte Cabinet seems stocked with crusty old men of questionable competence and character, so I'm not sure the current Administration is aligned with modern sensitivities about race and gender.
Attempts have been made to elaborate on the 1987 Constitution with anti-discrimination legislation in 2011, 2014, and 2017 (the 2017 bill was sponsored by Senator Ejercito). But nothing has been passed as law. The UN last year asked the Philippines to stop the practice of labeling Lumads and human rights workers as terrorists, as that is clearly discrimination. The House of Representatives passed legislation last week that protects human rights workers. But not Lumads, apparently.
We read or hear of many anecdotal cases of discriminatory behavior with the flood of Chinese mainlanders coming into the Philippines. Reports tell of Chinese businesses serving only Chinese customers, rude behavior by Chinese toward Filipinos, businesses operating without a license, and Chinese construction workers paid . . . under contracts agreed to by the Philippine government . . . six times what a Filipino construction worker would make for the same job.
A friend of our family told us about an incident with a Korean water supplier who would not provide water to Filipinos, only Koreans. So the problem is not just a Chinese issue. It is a problem with racial profiling done by just about every Asian nationality . . . except Filipinos.
This should be stopped. Immediately. Forcefully. This is the Philippines. This is a warm and welcoming people.
The Ejercito bill seems comprehensive enough. The only issue I have is the mild fine of P20,000 per day for offenses. I believe a distinction should be made between a business (or other organization/agency) and a private individual. Businesses should receive a higher fine. The bigger, the higher. Businesses operating without a proper license should be shut down immediately. Businesses sponsoring discriminatory acts should be fined from P100,000 to P1,000,000 plus P20,000 to P100,000 per day that the behavior persists. In other words, they should know better when they set the business up.
The water dispensing business might get the lowest fine. A construction company refusing to hire qualified Filipino workers might get a higher fine. In fact, I'd remove the fine amount from the bill itself and delegate it to the agencies drawing up the rules and regulations implementing the bill. That way punishments can be adjusted based on enforcement needs.
The best time to certify that the Philippines is an open, welcoming, non-discriminatory society is now, before racial hatreds are allowed to build. Chinese and Filipinos should walk and talk and work as equals. Every nationality should be equal to any other. If the Chinese bosses cannot do this, they should not set up shop in the Philippines. Or Koreans. Or . . .
If Filipinos take up the study of Mandarin, and become competent at it, they should be employed in the Chinese gaming centers with the same salary levels as mainlanders. Enforcement agencies should be empowered to make this so. If Philippine contracts mandate high wages for construction workers, and Filipinos qualify for the jobs, they should receive the jobs and the high pay. Labor ought not be imported to discriminate against Filipinos.
Basically, the State's position should be.
"We demand equality for all peoples . . . the warm, accepting, harmonious kind. If you can't do that, go back to the mainland, go broke, or go to jail if the discrimination is egregious enough. Or go back to Korea. Or wherever you can find the racial homogeneity you need that is against the law in the Philippines."
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46 Responses to "The need for an anti-discrimination law in the Philippines"
Ramon Cuerva says:
Thank you! I will repost.
On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 4:42 PM The Society of Honor: the Philippines wrote:
> The Society of Honor posted: " By JoeAm Filipinos generally treat other > races with polite consideration. They are courteous to whites, Chinese, > Japanese, and everyone else except perhaps blacks, as far as I can judge. > Dark-skinned Filipinos are often ridiculed or otherwise treated b" >
Let their foreign counterparts do what these Chinese are doing in the Philippines in China and see what the Chinese government will do to them.
It is said that the Filipino is as patient as the carabao. But let not that carabao go berserk or the Filipino go huramentado or run amok. And have such attitude get ingrained.
Glad you agree.
https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/06/07/19/clinton-palanca-and-the-dilemma-of-the-unhyphenated-filipino – the late Clinton Palanca wrote this in 2007:
"what is at present making the situation that much more complicated is the increasing influx of what are often termed the 'new migrants,' more properly known as the xinqiao. These are 'mainlanders' who have emigrated from China since its reopening and represent an entirely different generation of migrants." AND he also wrote THIS:
"The Chinese Filipinos are caught in between—not because their loyalty is divided, as pundits such as Monsod would have it. Their loyalty has remained unchanged—but the friends and neighbors they have lived with for years are suddenly looking at them differently. All parties concerned are beneficiaries of a fragile peace that took three generations to build.
"Most Chinese Filipinos identify as Filipino—and many are, in fact, the most vocal critics of the economic colonization by China. But many, especially rabble-rousers in search of a scapegoat, don't know the difference, or don't care; and as the economy sours further, so mounts the ethnic tension."
Irineo Salazar says:
It is in fact surprising that non-citizens are so easily getting work permits. Anti-discrimination is a good thing, but one may and most states do positively discriminate FOR their own citizens.
No working visa for the USA if an American citizen is found who can do the same job, no EU blue card if the job in question has similarly skilled EU citizens. Foreign companies entering the EU usually may take managers and experts with them, but otherwise MUST look for local employees – meaning citizens and foreigners who already have work permits. Plus there are anti-discrimination laws which prohibit discrimination based on a number of personal criteria, provided other factors such as qualification are equal, but this is more about preventing discrimination of migrants etc.
LCpl_X (@LCpl_X) says:
"No working visa for the USA if an American citizen is found who can do the same job, no EU blue card if the job in question has similarly skilled EU citizens."
the loophole to this is, ensure it's something skill or linguistically specific. With restaurants, it's Thai speaking or Chinese speaking, to ensure the ambience of said business, same with cooking style.
Massage parlors too, ie. Thai massage or Chinese footmassage or Korean accumpressure— both illicit and legit massage, ie. happy ending and w/out.
Filipinos tend to go with fake marriages here, and over stay w/out documents, just hide out waiting for amnesty. Also, asylum too is big, ie. NPA or gov't 's gonna kill me if I return.
Trump's clamping down on these loopholes now. Too many unskilled, no money folks attempting to come over here; the opposite should be true in the Philippines , the strategy should be to invite more
Peter Wallace types, Filipinize Europeans , Australians, Canadians, and Americans. To stave off Chinese invasion. 🙂
QuietPoetic says:
Why none of the Filipino influencers articulate this as an invasion I would not know.
We think of war and invasion as physical – involves guns, bombs, and the other side surrendering. But this is an economic WAR. The fact that we y'all think of anti-discrimination laws in your own country is a head-scratcher – how did we get here in the first place? Why do Koreans and Chinese work in a third world country like the Philippines – whose own citizens are migrating out for better opportunities?
We have surrendered and we don't even know we're in a war.
Say it as it is – THIS AN INVASION. No foreigner should be allowed to work in the Philippines, period.
That is probably a bit too much to ask for. Foreign spouses of Filipinos/Filipinas for example should be allowed to work. It would be terrible otherwise.
Foreign companies may bring in managers, but they should have to employ enough locals. Five managers and one Filipina secretary, for example, should not be allowed at all.
Companies that set up shop and employ only foreigners from top to bottom are truly not OK. No normal country allows that. Maybe a few experts to train locals, then leave – fair enough.
Special projects may also need foreign expertise. LRT1 had Italian and later Belgian engineers in one phase. Manila-Pangasinan railway famously had English engineers.
Russians BTW mastered the kind of invasion tactics the Chinese are using now. They built factories in many non-Russian parts of the Soviet Union and sent their people to live there. Latvia (EU country) has a huge Russian minority -. so do Moldavia, Ukraine, Kazahkstan..
"The fact that we think of anti-discrimination laws in our own country is a head-scratcher – how did we get here in the first place?"
Honestly, I'm surprised that you're still surprised.
Being discriminated in your own country cannot be solved by mere legislation when we have a president who slaughters fellow Filipinos like pigs, is totally indifferent to the economic flight of the poor, and one who suggests it might be good to just convert the country into another Chinese province.
Sorry, there are lots of punctuation marks involved on employing expats.
It took years for some established MNCs to have homegrown CEOs and senior management.
On another extreme some just plan to stay here for five years or less, so they keep the expat management.
The bad thing is even the laborer and the blue colars are foreigners.
The others I wanted to say are already expressed by Irineo.
QUESTION: Is this our country or is it a country of every Tom, Dick and Harry — especially, the small Dick from the North? [Sorry for the language. Don't speka the inglis well.]
It happen in every country including the Philippines.
I don't speka Inglis well myself. My answer was way off.
I share your frustration.
To clarify I agree with the article, I just want to point out that closing the doors to all expats is too borrow Irineo's words, too much to ask for.
I understand — just venting some frustration.
NH & karl,
East Asians, that's Japanese, Koreans and Chinese have a very distinct idea of what being Japanese or Korean or Chinese is, they have very specific notions of "purity".
Homogeneity vs. heterogeneity.
In the 90s, too much of the same bit the Japanese in the arse, they couldn't progress any farther; now the Koreans have taken the mantle but not only with cheap tech but also now with pop culture stuff (where the Japanese only pretty much exported Hello Kitty).
The Koreans are ascendant up to the 2000s (maybe still are, but mostly in pop-culture only, tech-wise no), but now the Chinese are ascendant.
The Chinese idea of purity is based on Han, but China's real big, so unlike Japanese and Koreans' specific sense of identity, ie. peninsula and island enclosed. The Chinese is truly more heterogeneous, thus the clamping down of others in China.
Now Southeast Asians, that's Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian, Indonesia and Filipinosian— Cambodian and Laos, don't really factor in. Burma just came back into the fold, i lump them in with Cambodia and Laos, basket cases.
But the Filipinosian is the most "heterogeneous" in idea because of all the melting pot stuff from the Americans, and Spain.
Thais have always been thais never conquered; but Malaysian, Indonesians and by extension Singaporisians have a weird Indian sub-continent flair to its heterogeneity thanks to Britain and history, a third wheel if you will, where as compared to Vietnam which is just Han Chinese vs. Malay.
So Vietnam is the closest to the Philippines— also going farther south in Indonesia, Indonesia is too. PNG is lump with the South Pacific folk, Khal Drogo's peeps.
Malaysia and Indonesia's homogeneity stems from Islam. Thai from thai; Viet from Viet identity.
The Filipinese identity, a large part of it thanks to American identity of no identity, more in common with Iberian peninsula and the Americas, is compared to its neighborhood, SE Asia and Asia (sub-continent I lump with Middle East), the Philippines is
named after a Spanish king, thus really a non-identity. And why a Peter Wallace can be a "Filipino" (Joe too if he were so inclined to be). So Filipine identity is the most Zen, like Bruce Lee's water.
Joe: "It is a problem with racial profiling done by just about every Asian nationality . . . except Filipinos."
Joe is correct, except Filipinos.
The solution isn't to suddenly impose some notion of identity, there is none. The answer is to leverage the fact that Filipinos is named after some European king. a made up identity.
Make more Peter Wallaces. But this time pick who gets to be "Filipino". Give Joe and Americans like him there, dual citizenships. Most environmentalists there are of Scandinavian stock, ex-pats, make them Filipinos.
You wanna fight Chinese/Han invasion; create more Filipinos— your model here is the Miss Universe pageant, and the PBA. 😉
Very nice dissection of racial themes in Asia.
Thank you LCX.
"The solution isn't to suddenly impose some notion of identity, there is none. The answer is to leverage the fact that Filipinos is named after some European king. a made up identity"
I agree that we can not suddenly impose some notion of identity.
So if ever we decide to rename the Philppines it will take a long process of forming a commission and Congressional Action.
(Like Federalism)
https://www.rappler.com/nation/172628-alejano-house-bill-commission-rename-philippines
Last February in one of Duterte's thinking out loud moments, Duterte said he wants to rename the country to Maharlika.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Duterte-wants-Philippines-renamed-Maharlika
This is similar to what Marcos did, Ireneo covered. Basically, using Tagalog for everything. Nationalizing Tagalog, where before the Philippines was the number 1 English speaking nation in Asia.
This I think is the original sin of Marcos , not all the plunder, after all every Filipino politician does this. And who cares what the high borns do. Like Lord Varys, I care about the realm 😉 , and what this Tagalogizing of the Philippines, created a generation
of non-English speaking Filipinos. the high borns speaking English good; the low borns now have to suffer English weaponized against them (because they no understood). Hence , why I think new Thomasites have to return to the Philippines, karl.
They'll never learn Mandarin in time to be proficient; English is a lot easier to master. It's like being naturally left handed and forced to be right handed, now Filipinos have to learn to write with their right foot now.
p.s.— Being named after some King in Spain is an advantage, use it. that's my point.
I remember jameboy always got offended when I promoted Filipino-Americans, as saviours of the Philippines. Well it's either more Chinese from China, or Apl-de-Ap, karl.
Get Senator Trillanes to expand education abroad programs here, ie. Cal State Universities or UC's or private universities,
invite Filipino-Americans to go study and live there.
I've also mentioned, the VA and veteran retirement and housing over here (gov't based), why not talk to the VA here and have them expand their old folks living arrangement to go over there, that's gov't money.
connect Filipina nurses with old vets. Make more Apl-de-Aps, karl… 😉 and secure their inheritances, love changes living wills. Lol!!!
These are two programs Senator Trillanes can do right now. This and
Filipino citizenship for Americans and Europeans there now, who have lived there at least 5 years, and are up standing citizens all in name. a bunch of Scandanavians in Bohol, taking care of the environment and tarsiers. Filipinize them already.
Sen. Trillanes can be like Jon Snow, the Long Night is coming (although it turned out it was just for one episode 😦 ), but he got wildlings, Northmen, unsullied, Dothraki, dragons, the Red woman, etc. etc. and united them all. The long night is here. China's every where. He needs
to come to Dragonstone. 😉 and begin siphoning resources here to go over there for the fight to come.
I thank for your outside the box suggestions, which I have to admit, I got allergic to.
So long as you have an Epi-pen close by , karl. You'll be okay. LOL!
But of all my suggestions here (the consolidation of nutrition and population control idea 😉 being my most original contribution here), this one isn't really outside the box suggestion.
1. Your entertainment industry there already has it.
2. Int'l beauty pageant contestants.
3. the PBA there.
Just follow those models, and scale up and you have your answer to the Chinese invasion there. NH's article of Diokno on his "invest, invest, invest" call to arms , that's for your halflings and expats.
China had a similar program in which they reached out to Chinese scientists working abroad, asked them to return offered them autonomy in research; not too many cutting edge Filipino scientists abroad really, or in general, but there's a bunch who'd want to be in show-biz there,
build around that. I still don't understand how K-Pop got so big, Filipinas are 10x as pretty and artistic than these Koreans. You guys should've beat them to the punch. If Roxas is BPO, Bam Negosyo/E-sports,
Senator Trillanes could totally be the dude that brought F-Pop to the world, he should touch base with Apl-de-Ap and Bruno Mars.
Leverage strengths!!!
I like the flow, LC! 🙂 Reminds me of Dick Shawn stream of consciousness monologs.
I don't know how it is now, I assume worst, given the trajectory then. But in Mactan island, when I was there mid-2000s, All KTVs, bars and some small time gambling establishments were owned by Koreans, for Koreans. Hotels too, both regular and short-time types.
Only Koreans could partake. Ironically, Koreans were also in Cebu proper mainly to study, where every time one of them wanted to go up any building more than 5 story up, they'd be denied by Filipinos, I guess because Koreans were prone to jump off high rise buildings for suicide. So a good kind of "discrimination", i suppose. 😉
Fast forward fifteen years or so, now with the advent of K-pop , etc. I'm sure Mactan island is fully Korean now. Wanna off-set that fact, house most of the US troops there in Mactan— you'll have half American/half-Korean babies in no time, affecting Korean sensibilities of purety.
My point, maybe increased US military presence is the solution, Joe? that and increase funding for new Thomasites, funded under USAID and AmeriCorps. As with the old Thomasites , tasked with simply teaching Filipinos English, with some culture too. soft-power at its best.
The Korean invasion is concentrated in Mactan island mainly, thus an easier fix; now, for the Chinese invasion it is much bigger, but I assume more Thomasites in the provinces as well as swank universities there (no military presence), should be part of any solution.
Call it the New Thomasites initiative!!!
If the wiki article is accurate, compared to a decade ago, the number of Koreans diminished by 31%.
Maybe they moved to Canada or the US after learning their English here.
But Mactan is the place where Korean Mafia abounds if we are to believe Duterte.
The Chinese over here and in say HK etc. etc. tend to organize criminally around brotherhoods and gangs.
The Japanese have yakuza and street gangs in Japan, but never had any of those over here, I think much of that was the result of internment camps during WWII.
The Koreans here don't tend to organize around brotherhoods, gangs, etc. they tend to organize around church, Korean christian churches… don't get me wrong, Koreans are the fightingest East Asians I know, they are like Klingons, always aggressive and fighting,
but I never heard of mafia type organizations while there. not in mactan, not over here.
Talks of Chinese organized crime, i'll believe, it's consistent. Yakuza sure, i've seen Rising Sun w/ Wesley Snipes. But koreans and mafia, never heard of it. You're right, they've probably moved on to greener pastures,
many actually become pastors, thus secure their visas to come here. Koreans and their churches, karl. Not mafia per se, look into their churches. I've never seen people so drunk off Christ, literally and figuratively. 😉
Though Mactan island PNP was rumored to be the dirrrtiest in Cebu, karl… so maybe that's the connection there. not so much Korean mafia???
Urban legend perhaps.(Re:Mafia)
Thanks for the additional information.
Probably in the philippines best interest to keep Koreans and Japanese as friends, karl. Just keep in mind that most East Asians look down on Filipinos.
Korean gangs. I watch korean drama too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kkangpae
I was told that people who look down on people are just admiring their shoes.Or may have a foot fetish.
Well there's gangs everywhere for sure, karl.
But I think Korean gangs/mafia never extended internationally, say like the tongs/triads (who extended to California in the late 1800s), but Japanese although Japanese pirates did ply the waters even around the Philippines in the 1800s never really got a foot hold in the US— a lot of Japanese in Peru, then to Bolivia and Brazil, don't think they blip there either.
So too Korean mafia. Hence, doubtful that they are in Mactan island. I know in say Kuala Lumpur or in Japan they have advisories to visiting military saying stay away from this or that establishment because it's a known Chinese mafia (Kuala Lumpur and HK) or Japanese mafia (Tokyo, etc.) hang out. not that they'll target you per se, but best to stay away typa warning.
But as far as I know i've never heard similar advisories not in the Philippines not in Korea about Korean mafia. So Chinese mafia blips on the radar, so too Japanese mafia (though only in Japan), but never Korean mafia. In fairness, Chinese and Japanese mafias didn't blip (at least for State Dept advisories) in the Philippines either.
In addition, the definition of a good mafia or crime syndicate is that it doesn't suppose to blip period, secret and silent. under the radar. But , IMHO there's just a bunch of Koreans because they were able to buy there when it was still available, backwaters, now it's prime reality and they've made bank.
i.e., a bunch of private English schools/tutoring sprouted in the area, so Koreans don't have to trek all the way to Cebu City, thus enclosed pretty much. there's no natural water reservoirs, so water is an issue in Bohol. I'm sure more so now, hence that bridge to Mactan island Bohol is badly needed. Maybe this is the smoke screen, karl, DU30 just wants to push out Koreans from Mactan. i dunno.
As for looking at shoes, a good habit to have in police states, always look down at shoes, raggedy clothes raggedy shoes, just some poor local dude; raggedy clothes expensive shoes, you're being minded and/or tracked!!! Carry on being a tourist. mafias will have expensive clothes expensive shoes.
there's no natural water reservoirs, so water is an issue in *Bohol. (sorry, *Mactan i meant )
We cannot legislate dignity and fair treatment unless and until we get rid of that treasonous moron in Malacanang.
I am just guessing why the comprehensive bill of Ejercito did not even move.
There is already a Committee Report on an Anti-Discrimination Act based of Sexual orientation.
A comprehensive bill will have to be referred to too many committees .
https://www.senate.gov.ph/lis/committee_rpt.aspx?congress=17&q=17
With Ejercito out, Joel Villanueva and Hontiveros must follow through.
https://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2018/0307_villanueva1.asp
popoy says:
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/06/08/1924740/duterte-says-he-has-lost-his-trust-philippine-media
You cannot lose something or anything you do not have before.
I find it ironic that a people that have been colonized or undergoing colonization are protesting that nationals from their colonial masters get preferential pay or treatment when they work as ecpats here. Such has always been the case, when the Spanish came with their swords and crosses and bestowed their countrymen the best jobs, lands and social status the colony could offer. When the Americans took over and even after granting their colony independence, American expats and even local hires were accorded special status abd economic priivileges denied their Filipino coworkers.
It is just totally bizarre that the Duterte regime has acquiesced to welcoming their Chinese partners as the country's colonial masters for either some hidden private bargain or questionable political agenda and is borrowing billions of yuan and for the privilege of paying mainland expat labor premium wages funded by the same usurious loans. It is just as pathetic if it is the the intent of the law being enacted in the Senate by those who are being colonized to dissuade their colonizers from discriminating against Filipinos in their own country. For a regime that prides itself in extrajudicial killings, paying no heed to the constitution as well acting like overseers of a Chinese privincr, all I have to say is good luck with that!
It seems it is part of the loan contract that Chinese firms and Chinese workers will do the projects funded by the Chinese loans. The Philippines way out of this is that Chinese firms and Chinese workers should be tax on their income here since the situs is here.
Loan contracts are with banks, project contracts are with commercial parties.
Rule of thumb: If its in the Philippines, it should be Filipino first. That means unfair treatment of foreigners when they are up against Filipinos.
PROOF OF LIFE NEEDED
Boo Chanco is a journalist specializing in business-economy related items. In a recent article,
https://www.philstar.com/business/2019/06/10/1925014/economic-take-off-finally
he made kind remarks on the aspirations of the BSP Governor Ben Diokno for the country. He also notes that the Governor is not enthusiastic about the Current Administration pushing for the divisive Federalism idea in the second half of its term — instead of focusing its political capital on matters related to inclusive economic growth.
Ben Diokno in a speech, gave "the assurance that the Philippine economy is sound. It is one of the best performing economies in the world. Its prospects are bright—extremely bright. And if you have money to invest, this is the best time to invest, invest, invest in the Philippines. Do not delay, do not waver. Because if you do, you will regret it."
But Boo Chanco made this rather naughty remark — which he prefaced earlier in his article about companies fleeing China because of the ongoing US-China Trade War, these companies preferring to go to such country as Vietnam rather than the PH — which I believe hits the spot: Gov. Ben is asking for an act of faith that they [the government] will deliver [on its economic reforms] as promised. We first need to see proof of life.
This IMHO is the best litmus test. Bridge/viaduct to Bohol from Mactan island. Cebu/Mactan gets fresh water from Bohol (salt water intrusion, plus no reservoirs in Cebu is a problem ), then from Cebu electricity. Water & Power.
DU30 need only deliver this bridge, albeit with quality and no debt bs, quality good working bridge. I know there are other build, build, build projects over there, but this is the only one that really matters, and will seal his legacy.
So all DU30 has to do is focus his energy here, to ensure quality and a good price, w/out all the same crap happening that already happened in Africa and Latin America.
As before Mactan island is where it's at. Like Magellan , DU30 will either make it or break it here. Mactan Island.
Seems like a good project.
NH, the biggest hurdle is that bridge to Olango island that's all engineering right there, because that's deep waters; from there to bohol, that's shallow waters, just have good concrete mix and it'll last, like the Keys in Florida.
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Dr. Sarah Donkers (PhD) is an assistant professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan (USask). (Photo: Submitted)
USask researcher building new model for MS care
As the search for a cause and a cure for multiple sclerosis (MS) continues around the world, Dr. Sarah Donkers (PhD) is exploring new ways to improve the lives of individuals living with the disease here in Saskatchewan.
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The assistant professor in the School of School of Rehabilitation Science in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is currently working on several MS research projects. Her latest is a three-year project to build a new physical rehabilitation neurorecovery model of care for those living with MS in the province.
"Because of advances in research and advances in treatment, people are living longer and living better with MS," said Donkers, who is also the co-head of the NeuroSask physiotherapy program delivering online physical therapy guidance for MS patients during the ongoing global pandemic. "If we can get people living with MS to be more active and stay active longer, that seems to have the biggest benefit. And as the disease progresses, we want to be able to provide intense task-oriented training to most effectively promote neural recovery."
Previous research conducted by USask's Dr. Charity Evans (PhD) of the College of the Pharmacy and Nutrition and Dr. Katherine Knox (MD) of the College of Medicine confirmed that Saskatchewan has among the highest rates of MS in the world (315 cases per 100,000 people). Despite that, the province does not currently have MS-specific physical rehabilitation services, a missing piece of the health-care puzzle that Donkers is trying to complete.
As medical experts estimate 80 per cent of people living with the chronic degenerative neurological disease are not sufficiently active, Donkers aims to identify the most effective physical therapy methods and work with a team of clinicians and collaborators to create the most practical model to provide access to treatment in the province.
"It's a two-pronged approach," said Donkers, who earned her PhD at USask before becoming a faculty member. "We want to focus on a way that we can deliver programs and support that will work with our current health-care system and the reality of our Saskatchewan landscape. We do not have MS hot spots, per se, in the province. We do have more cases in Saskatoon and Regina, due to population. But overall we have low population density and people living with MS spread across the entire province, so we need to provide services that can reach people wherever they are."
Donkers and other researchers are also currently running two other studies exploring alternate methods of access and delivery, from in-person treatment at clinics and physiotherapists travelling to homes, to virtual online programming and tele-help.
"This is really the critical piece to make this change in clinical practice and to get the momentum moving forward to put our new findings into practice," she said.
Donkers said her three-year research project is beginning with building a network of MS researchers, clinicians and individuals living with the disease, as well as experts from the Saskatchewan Health Authority and other stakeholders and collaborators, all working together to design a new model for rehabilitation. The team will then move to implement the new model, which will be built on the best practices of clinicians and emerging evidence from researchers.
"There a lot of moving parts that we need to address," she said. "We have to be realistic and know there will be compromises, but that is how you get to the point of implementing something that is sustainable, something that is meaningful and something that is relevant to the local health care context. We are going to choose what the biggest priority is, design a program, and implement it. We envision a multi-pronged approach that will be put into place in order to best serve people with MS, wherever they are throughout the province."
So what drives Donkers' determination to find new ways to improve the lives of those affected by MS?
"There are a number of people who have driven my passion for this field of research," said Donkers. "The biggest thing was I worked clinically before I went into research and I specialized in neurological rehabilitation and I just wanted to be able to do more for my patients with MS, especially when they got to those progressive stages of the disease. I wanted to improve my own understanding of the disease and try to make a difference with my research."
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Q: QThread error , was not defined in this scope I was hoping to get some help figuring out where I went wrong on my code for a QThread. This is the first time doing threading and have been reading and watching tutorials, but am still hvaing a hard time. Herr is my code
currentTimeThread.h (my thread)
#ifndef CURRENTTIMETHREAD_H
#define CURRENTTIMETHREAD_H
#include <QtCore>

class currentTimeThread :public QThread
{
public:
    currentTimeThread();
    void run();
};

#endif // CURRENTTIMETHREAD_H

currentTimeThread.cpp
#include "currenttimethread.h"
#include <QtCore>
#include <QDebug>
#include "noheatmode.h"

currentTimeThread::currentTimeThread()
{
}

void currentTimeThread::run()
{
 QTime time = QTime::currentTime();
 QString sTime = time.toString("hh:mm:ss:ms");
 noheatmode::ui->tempTimeNoHeatMode->append(sTime);
}

and my noHeatMode.cpp when the thread is called/started
#include "noheatmode.h"
#include "ui_noheatmode.h"
#include "wiringPi.h"
#include "currenttimethread.h"
#include <QTime>
#include <QTextEdit>
#include <QTimer>
#include <QString>

noheatmode::noheatmode(QWidget *parent) :
QWidget(parent),
ui(new Ui::noheatmode)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);

}

noheatmode::~noheatmode()
{
   delete ui;
}

 while(flowTime > 0)

      currentTimeThread timeThread;
      timeThread.start();

      {// set second pin LED to flash according to dutyCycle
       digitalWrite(2,1);
       delay(onTime);
       digitalWrite(2,0);
       delay(offTime);

      //set zero pin to be high while flowtime is more than 0
      digitalWrite(0,1);

      flowTime--;
      }

The issues it, I am getting an error that the timeThread of
currentTimeThread timeThread

is not declared. What is the issue?

A: You are misplaced the braces in your while loop:
while(flowTime > 0)
{ // <---- HERE
  currentTimeThread timeThread;
  timeThread.start();

  // set second pin LED to flash according to dutyCycle
  digitalWrite(2,1);
  delay(onTime);
  digitalWrite(2,0);
  delay(offTime);

  //set zero pin to be high while flowtime is more than 0
  digitalWrite(0,1);

  flowTime--;
}

Otherwise, the code is equivalent to this
while (flowTime > 0)
{
    currentTimeThread timeThread;
}
// timeThread doesn't exist anymore
// Rest of code

A: I think you're getting it the worng way.  By the time (I think we're talking about QT3), QT has change their way of using threads and did confuse us, the users, a little bit, but it is easy when you get it.
 You should never extend QThread, just use the class they're offering you.
The scheme in your case would be as follows:

*

*create a class with your loop

*create on this class a slot, which is a method that can be invoked
from another thread.

*from the main class, create an instance of your loopClass and another one of QThread

*Use movetothread over your loopObject using the QthreadObject as parameter

*send a signal to your loopObject's slot so it can start working

You can see a full explanation in this article:
 https://mayaposch.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/how-to-really-truly-use-qthreads-the-full-explanation/
it helped me a lot ;)
Sorry i haven't the time by now to code a full example, if you need it let me know and i can lend you a hand latter.


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Anonymous benefactor saves 85-year-old woman's house
Applecrest
By MAX SULLIVAN - Associated Press - Tuesday, October 30, 2018
HAMPTON FALLS, N.H. (AP) - An anonymous buyer is purchasing a property on Applecrest Farm Orchards so an 85-year-old woman, who has lived there for decades, can spend the rest of her years there, according to her family.
Gertrude "Gert" Eaton, 85, and her family said they were approached by a man a couple weeks ago about purchasing the Nason Road property, where Eaton claims farm owners promised decades ago she could live the rest of her life.
They say the buyer closed Oct. 24 on the property, which Applecrest owners have said they are being forced by their bank to sell to address financial concerns.
The Eaton family announced the sale was happening in a post over the weekend on a GoFundMe page set up by Eaton's daughter Trudy and neighbor Wendy Harrington. The page had been seeking $275,000 in donations so Eaton could buy the property. The family said the buyer knows their identity will be made public once the sale is reflected in town records but for now wishes to remain anonymous for privacy reasons.
Applecrest ownership did not respond to an inquiry on whether a sale took place. The Rockingham County Registry of Deeds shows a warranty deed dated Oct. 24, last Wednesday, that states Applecrest is granting John J. Beaton, trustee of the Beaton Living Trust, with a 2-acre lot located within a subdivision of land in Hampton Falls. Beaton is listed to have a Nason Road address.
Eaton, who said she was devastated when approached by Applecrest owners about the property being sold earlier this year, said she is relieved she will get to stay in her home. She said she was born in the cottage, her family being employees of Applecrest, and she eventually moved back into the home with her husband when she got married, still working there until about nine years ago.
The family went public with their criticism of Applecrest for selling the property earlier this month. Applecrest owners responded, saying the sale is necessary to keep the business afloat.
"I feel very happy to know that there's people out there that care," said Eaton Monday.
Eaton's son Everett, who also worked on the farm for years, said he was approached a few weeks ago by the anonymous buyer, who told him he was aware of his mother's concern about being forced to leave her home.
"I thought he meant with the GoFundMe page," said Everett Eaton. "He said, 'No. I want to help.'"
Trudy Eaton said the purchase is a "beautiful gesture" that caught her family by surprise. She said it is yet to be determined what will be done with the $4,880 in donations collected through the GoFundMe page as of Monday, but donors are being encouraged to let her or Harrington know if they want donations refunded.
"I'm blown away," said Trudy Eaton. "I'm just overwhelmed with joy that someone would do this for someone that they don't even know."
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Information from: Portsmouth Herald, http://www.seacoastonline.com


Can you spare an hour or two in Ealing to help us out between now and Tuesday?
Next week is moving week! We've been storing about 12,000 or so books at the top of the OPEN Ealing community centre since last November, but it's now time for them to go, as they won't all fit into OPEN's new premises when the move this summer.
We've arranged with Read International for their partner, Better World Books to take these away for us this Monday and Tuesday. They will then be sold on, with the money going to Read International, to support their great work in bringing education and literacy to Africa.
This is a very big job, and we need loads of help to make it a small one! If you can help, please email us at londonbookswap@gmail.com, Tweet us at @BooksforLondon or text/call Chris on 07851602884.
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White House Recruiting Climate Skeptics For New Working Group
By Nate Hegyi
· Feb. 26, 2019, 12:48 pm
Brian Albers / KUER
A refinery in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Originally published on February 25, 2019 4:55 pm
The Trump administration is assembling a panel to take a second look at recent federal climate change reports.
According to news reports, the ad-hoc group is spearheaded by William Happer, a former physics professor at Princeton University who disagrees with the scientific consensus that climate change is real and human-caused.
The list of people who have been contacted to join the group include a scientist who called climate change believers a "cult," as well as other scientists with more mainstream beliefs.
The group was organized in response to last year's National Climate Assessment, which warned of dire consequences from human-caused climate change. In the Mountain West, this could mean more severe wildfires, longer droughts and less snow.
The report, which President Trump was said to have been unhappy with, has since been used by Democrats to tout their Green New Deal.
Cathy Whitlock is a professor of earth sciences at Montana State University who co-authored the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment. It concluded that Montana would experience more severe wildfires and a lower snowpack due to climate change. She says the working group is a political effort to challenge science.
"Hopefully people can see that the science overwhelmingly points to our climate is changing," she said.
This story was produced by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUER in Salt Lake City and KRCC and KUNC in Colorado.
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Regular readers will know that I'm a huge fan of cool watches, eternally looking for the next unique time keeper to adorn my wrist. I've came to the conclusion that it is a horological mine field, the huge number of brands and their individual designs makes it difficult to find a true gem amongst the vast unexceptional products which oversaturate the market. Thanks to a collaboration with Jord Watches, my current chase has came to an end.
Upon receiving my new accessory, I couldn't wait to delve inside! Discarding the shipping packaging I was greeted with a simple wooden box, baring the brands name engraved into the top. The lid came away with nary a struggle, but also not too loose, the perfect fit in fact. This may seem like something trivial to mention, but in my experience if the packaging is of an expert standard, then the contents will mirror or surpass in quality.
Inside the wooden box, I came face to face with the Jord Dover Automatic Watch in Olive & Acacia, securely wrapped around a piece of burlap, continuing with the brands rustic theme. The quality was apparent as soon as I lifted it away from its housing, every inch of the production was flawless (crafted almost entirely from wood, I expected some small imperfections, but this was not the case) the colour I chose was the lightest out of the 3 Dover designs, which I felt was more suited to my style. The face colour has similarities to gun metal (which just so happens to be a particular favourite of mine) which complements the olive and acacia wood finish perfectly.
For me, the highlight is of course the partially open heart construction, the centre of the face is cut away allowing anyone to peer inside the inner mechanics of the watch, its distinctive parts dutifully performing their individual tasks without fail. Flipping the watch over, the back is completely uncovered allowing you to view inside without obstruction. Wearing the watch on multiple occasions with a variety of outfits; it has proven to be quite the centre piece, equally at home with a smart outfit as well as a more casual attire. It is also very lightweight, so much in fact that you can barely can feel it on your wrist.
In conclusion, I'm very happy with the Jord Dover Automatic Watch In Olive & Acacia, it has surpassed even my lofty expectations from a quality time piece! From the moment you hold it in your hands, it's clear each item has been filled with nothing less than pure love and devotion to ensure you get a top of the range product. Would you wear a wooden watch? Please let me know in the comments below on my male fashion blog.
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I believe they must have some kind of weather protection on them. They do feel different when you first put them on, its not a bad different though. They are definitely pretty cool to wear!


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Uduaghan's Response On Facebook Yields Umeh Dividends
Posted on : November 16, 2011 By Blank NEWS Online
Delta state government has promised to tar the 7.5km access link road to Umeh community in Isoko South of local government Area soonest; as Governor Uduaghan said his response is due to a Facebook site which mentioned the deplorable situation of the road.
Uduaghan pledged that priority would be given to the construction of the deplorable access road linking the area to the outside world, during an unscheduled visit to the largely agrarian community said.
He also promised that the only primary school in the area would be renovated in addition to the construction of modern classroom blocks.
He explained that the community would enjoy the dividends of democracy after so many years of neglect by previous administrations.
Amid chants of political slogans by the community members, the governor said; "I did not come here for politics, I came here as the governor of the state, I am the governor to every Deltan."
The governor noted that his administration was interested in the construction of the road because of the great agricultural potentials of the people adding that the farm produce from the area can feed the state and country in general.
"I assure you that the contract for the road will be awarded soon and it will be given to the best contractor to handle. I will do my part to see to the completion of the road. You will also do your part in increasing your farming proceeds."
Governor Uduaghan observed that he learnt about the deplorable situation of Umeh road from the Facebook site of Barr. Duncan an indigene of the community and decided to come and see things for himself.
He said "you people are sophisticated farmers, what I saw in your farm land is wonderful. You people have gone far in Agriculture. I commend you."
In a brief response, a community leader thanked the governor for the visit saying "this is the first time we are seeing a governor in our midst. This shows that you have interest in our road."
He commended the governor for the promise he made to renovate and re-build the primary school in the area adding that the community did not lobby for the dividends of democracy.
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Blank NEWS Online founding Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Albert Eruorhe Ograka, is a Graduate of Mass Communication. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Journalism from the International Institute of Journalism (IIJ).
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BEZI IGHOTEGWOLOR says:
GOV.UDUAGHAN,PLEASE COME TO THE AID OF ALADJA GRAMMAR SCHOOL,ALADJA.THIS SCHOOL IS THE FIRST SECONDARY SCHOOL THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE KINGDOM.AT INCEPTION THE PLAN WAS TO MAKE THE SCHOOL A MODEL COLLEGE AFTER SOME YEARS BUT THAT DREAM IS NOW A PIPE DREAM.BE THAT AS IT MAY BE WE ARE IMPLORING YOU TO USE YOUR OFFICE TO SAVE THE SCHOOL FROM GOING EXTINCT BECAUSE OF THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE SCHOOL.YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON,AS THE STATE GOVERNOR,WHO CAN BRING BACK SMILE ON THE FACES OF TEACHERS,STUDENTS,THE OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OF THE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO AT ONE TIME OR THE OTHER DID THEIR BEST TO HELP THE SCHOOL FROM DYING.THAKNS AND GOD BLESS.
Davies Emma says:
follow this link to Gov Uduaghan page on facebook, there you can learn more about update of Uduaghan administration and subsequently lodge your complain.
http://www.facebook.com/euduaghan
that is the link.
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Select the first frame. Now go to your working area and draw any object. To start off with, may be you can draw a circle.This is going to be your initial object.
In the above demonstration, my initial object is a short line.
Select frame 20 and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.
Still keeping playhead on frame 20, delete the object present in your working area. Now draw a different object, may be a square.
Select any frame between, 2 to 19 and select Shape from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Now your Layer will look something like the one shown below.
In the above tutorial, you learnt how to create a simple shape tween. Believe me, using this logic you can create n number of beautiful things. Here is a simple example just to trigger your creativity.
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You Ready for a Film Noir Puppet Comedy From Jim Henson's Son?
By Hallie Cantor
Yeah, you read that headline right. Jim Henson's son Brian Henson is directing a film noir comedy with puppets called The Happytime Murders. It looks significantly darker than The Muppets (these puppets smoke cigarettes!) but hopefully it'll have the same imaginative sense of world creation. Here's a description:
In a world where puppets co-exist with humans as second class citizens, puppet private eye and disgraced ex-cop Phil Phillips is hot on the trail of the serial killer who murdered his brother and is now targeting the cast members of the famous 80s television show The Happytime Gang. As the killings continue, Phil's former flame, Jenny, is next on the list. It's up to Phil and his ex-partner, Detective Edwards, to find the culprit, but as bad blood and old resentments resurface the clues start pointing to the only viable suspect, Phil himself. Now he's on the run with only his wits and hard headed determination, as he tries to solve The Happytime Murders.
Yep, this sounds kind of amazing.
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