BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II

The Polish Saint, Pope St. John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła in 18 May 1920  and died in 2 April 2005, served as Roman Pontiff from 1978 to 2005. He is widely known to Catholics as Saint John Paul the Great, especially in the names of institutions.

He was elected by the second Papal conclave of 1978, which was called after Pope John Paul I, who had been elected in August after the death of Pope Paul VI, died after thirty-three days. Cardinal Wojtyła was elected on the third day of the conclave and adopted his predecessor's name in tribute to him. John Paul II is recognised as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. He upheld the Church's teachings on such matters as artificial contraception and the ordination of women, but also supported the Church's Second Vatican Council and its reforms.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S LETTER TO HIS SON’S TEACHER/HEADMASTER

Dear teacher….

He will have to learn, I know, that all men are NOT JUST, all men are NOT TRUE. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish Politician, there is a dedicated leader… Teach him for every enemy there is a friend.

Steer him away from envy, if you can, teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest to lick… Teach him, if you can, the WONDER OF BOOKS… But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside.

In the school teach him IT IS FAR HONORABLE TO FAIL THAN TO CHEAT… Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong… Teach him to be gentle with gentle people, and tough with the tough. Try to give my son the STRENGTH NOT TO FOLLOW THE CROWD when everyone is getting on the band wagon… Teach him to listen to all men… but teach him also TO FILTER ALL HE HEARS ON A SCREEN OF TRUTH, and take only the good that comes through.

MY WOMAN.... I

Hers is a beauty that blended so much with my dreams of a perfect woman. She was more of an answer to my prayers for a "perfect" companion who will fill in my other half.

From the days of my childhood, even when i was yet to discover what the laws of attraction, like and unlike charges and so  on were, i knew and felt a kind of propulsion which the developments of my person through years of formal and informal learning, puberty and so on has shed lights on, hence my understanding of what this push and pull was. and what was this? it is the law of attraction, of the need to be in friendship and companionship with people for whom i have come to see as either like minds or even those i cannot possibly explain the cause of my interest and attraction for them.

THE CONCEPT OF ‘OGWU EGO’: A BRIEF PHILOSOPHICAL EVALUATION

1.0.Brief Opening Notes: 

Now and again, it is recounted that some evil men in the society engage in money ritual. In our dialect, it is taken to be ‘ogwu ego.’ One of the purveyors of this scaring act is the movie industry. From childhood, a lot of influences and wrong notions have been ‘forcefully’ impacted on the children and respectively almost every one of us. Some of these influences we carry on till death. Some are very difficult to be effaced. Some are corrected by education in form of enlightenment.

2.0.Its a Pity:

At childhood, we learn that one should not talk at night lest one be carried away by the evil spirit. Some would be told not to go to so so river at so so and so so moment lest the river will turn into blood and many more others. All these are aimed, inter alia, at controlling certain stubbornness and arrogance in children. But, it is quite unfortunate as one grows up, these become really part and parcel of us.  Considering the topic of our examination, it will immediately call to mind, the erroneous notion we have as it concerns ‘ogwu ego.’ We believe or rather we are meant to believe that some bad people engage in ‘ogwu ego’ so as to be rich. Such people are purported to have suffered much but all to no avail. Some of such are said often time to be lazy ones who do not want to suffer to make money. And so, most at times, when a poor man popularly known by his people gets rich all of a sudden, people are bound to tag the source of his richness ‘ogwu ego’ especially those who do not benefit from the cash. Fine, this paper is not interested in the source of their wealth; rather, it is faced with the challenge of examining the concept itself.