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Gospel of St. Thomas in Focus

The Newly revealed Gospel of St. Thomas is a non-canonical Gospel known as the Apocryphal book of the gospels. The collections of Gospels has an uncanny similarity if not connections to the four Gospels in the New Testament during Chrit's ministry in Jerusalem that was widely recognized by the Cannon Law of the Cathtolic Church. Discovered in 1945, in Nag Hammadi , Egypt wriiten in Coptic Language and named by modern day Scholars as Codex 2 the Gospel contained sayings of Jesus Christ written in Aramaic a-- hebrew language that is almost extinct. Mostly called the Hidden Words of Jesus becuase it was literally hidden and was not intended for publications along with the four Gospels in the New Testaments by--Cannon Law Priests and High ranking Church Officials in the Early Christian Orthodox Church.

Humanity (Performed by RocK Legend the Scorpions) is a Song about the environment-- as aVictim of Greed

The Song depicts the deterioration of the Environment and the world because of Human inflicted sources--Greed for Power,Money, technology---- that is destroying the balance of the Natural movement of Life in our Planet the way it was created by God. Human Inventions such as Nuclear weapons will be a Major contributor to the distruction of the World and the Human race. A part of of the lyrics that hit me over and over is--- 'in your eyes you're staring at the end of time". Illegal cutting of trees in the different rain forests of the world is second major contributor to the distruction of Natural resources and someday soon the scarcity of food, energy, and clean water. So, Let us not say good bye to Mother earth, It was Lovingly created by God--that WE may be in-charge of His creation, it was A responsibility to and for us---and not to abuse and destroy it.

70's, 80's OPM Music and the Manila Sound Victim of too much revival?

Familiar sound of Retro music 70', & 80's music ( revivals) seems to be playing in Metro Manila airwaves quite frequently. New artists singing the old songs, the young generation of today are surprised why their elders would know the song- and would reply simply..."its a revival". "Manila sound" may take you down to memory lane and will remind you of the voices of: VST & Co., Apo Hiking Society,Hotdog, Rey Valera, Anthony Castelo, Basil Valdez, (teen age voice)of Sharon Cuneta and the Rock & Roll Genre--Mike Hanopol, Pepe Smith and Sampaguita. Most prefer the original artists and would rather buy the original cd--- specially the die hard cd collectors who would really go out of their to a thrift specialty store the internent to find these rare recordings if the items are not sold else where---rather than the new cover version; for magnified reasons such as: the "new Artists exagerated too much", "lousy copy" etc. So.