Where Iglesia Ni Cristo Chapel design comes from?

Where Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) Chapel design comes from?

 

I heard my employer talking about the Church of Christ Chapel, they praise it for its beauty and designed, they didn’t know I was happy what was I heard from them, because it’s ours. Not only those, many people are amazed in the styled of the Church of Christ for its marvelous and elegant designed, especially, the tallest tower like spears pointing to the sky, they ask where this designed come from? critics say that the designed of it has a meaning, I heard some funny words about this, they say, its a tip of spaceship that when the rupture come it will fly, other say, they put the tower with light, so that the church will be visible from heaven by God, that is some joke I heard from others. There are so many story about the designed of the church, other are bad, other are good.

 

By the way, who really designed the Church of Christ Chapel?

 

According to the history it was designed by architect Carlos Antonio Santos-viola.

 

Carlos Antonio Santos-Viola (April 8, 1912 - July 31, 1994) was an architect in the Philippines. He is best known for designing and building Churches for the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) religious group.

 

Shortly after World War II, he decided to open his own office in partnership with Alfredo J. Luz. And His first exposure to the INC group was executed under Nakpil's company through the Bishop's Palace in San Juan, Manila.

 

INC gave the subsequent project directly to Santos-Viola. Although common elements may be visible, his designs were distinct from one another.

 

Where he got  the designed or style of Church of Christ?

He got this from 20th-century geometric forms garnished with Gothic revival and Baroque lines.

 

What is this Gothic revival and Baroque?

 

Gothic is an artistic style or movement of the 18th and 19th centuries inspired by and imitative of the Gothic style especially in architecture, it also referred to as "Victorian Gothic", "Neo-Gothic" or "Jigsaw Gothic", a style popularized in 1850-1880, whose characteristics include pointed arches, steeply pitched roofs, pinnacles, and battlements. Gothic Revival usually displays steep pointed gables, often with decorative bargeboards, octagonal towers or turrets, and verandahs or porches.

 

Sample of Gothics Design other than Church of Christ

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. In architecture, new emphasis was placed on bold massing, colonnades, domes, light-and-shade (chiaroscuro), 'painterly' color effects, and the bold play of volume and void.

 

Sample of Baroque Art

From this Carlos Antonio Santos-viola got the design of Church of Christ Temple or Chapel.

 

His first design was The Iglesia Ni Cristo in Cubao, Quezon City, and his largest chapel design was The Iglesia Ni Cristo Central Temple in Commonwealth Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City,   

 

Church of Christ Grand Temple

Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) Central Temples employ exterior neo-Gothic vertical support columns with tall narrow windows between, interlocking trapezoids, and rosette motifs, as well as tower and spires." There are multiple entrances leading to the main sanctuary, where males and females sit on either side of the aisle facing a dais where sermons are made. The choir loft is located behind the dais, and in larger churches, baptistry pools for immersion baptism are located at the back of the Church.

INC Churches can be uniquely identified for "its exuberant use of fanciful forms and ornaments and a brilliant white facade whose silhouette is a cusped Gothic arch or a flattened Saracenic arch." The distinctive spires represent "the reaching out of the faithful to God." according to Fernando Nakpil-Zialcita, an anthropologist from Ateneo de Manila University,

The Central Temple features octagonal spires, "fine latticework" and ribbed windows. Recently, some changes made in the designed to accommodate a larger number of attendees.

 

When I wasn’t yet a member of this Church, I thought I was a palace and I always wanted to enter here every time I saw it, and when I become a member I saw it more beautiful than I ever thing, not made by man but by God inspire by His Glory and love for His people the Iglesia ni Cristo.

 

References:

http://i.word.com/idictionary/gothic%20revival, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_revival, http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/gothicrev.html, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=9242&term_type_id=3&term_type_text=things

What is Typhus, How can we prevent it.

Have you experience what they called hallucination, its a experience of something you see but not real.

 

 

Dated back When I was 12 years old, in our province in Bulacan, I don’t know but at that time I have a high fever I was lying in our bed when I saw four carpenter working in our roof look like its under construction, I also heard the sound of hummer and saw, I ask my mother what I saw, but my mother told me, to just sleep,  maybe my mother knows I’m in the state of delirium and I raises from bed to drink water I wear a slipper but I had no slipper, I go to our kitchen and drink water using my hand that in my mind I had a glass for water, I don’t know if I’m dreaming or not but according to the doctor what happened to me is hallucination because of high fever called typhus, sound like my fever affected my mind, other say that typhus can also lost your hair.

I thought typhus and typhoid is the same but like me many people occasionally equate typhus with typhoid, this is incorrect but easily understandable due to the evolving understanding of diseases. both diseases have in common the symptom of high fever, and the major species of Rickettsia that causes endemic typhus is still termed "typhi," but the causes, transmission, and pathology of these diseases are quite different the typhoid are cause by Salmonella bacteria.

Typhus is a bacterial disease spread by lice or fleas. A disease caused by bacteria mainly Rickettsia typhi or R. prowazekii

Bacteria Rickettsia

The bacteria are small and very difficult to cultivate; originally they were thought to be viruses. The disease occurs after bacteria Rickettsia spp. are transferred to humans usually by vectors such as fleas or lice that have acquired the bacteria from animals such as rats, cats, opossums, raccoons, and other animals. 

 

There are two major types of typhus: endemic (or murine typhus) and epidemic typhus.

 

Endemic typhus is also termed murine typhus and "jail fever." "Endemic typhus" also means that an area or region has an animal population usually mice, rats, or squirrels, that has members of its population continually infected with R. typhi that through flea vectors can incidentally infect humans.

Epidemic typhus is the more severe form of typhus. It has also been termed recrudescent or sporadic typhus. "Epidemic typhus" also means that a few animals, usually rats via lice vectors, can incidentally infect large numbers of humans quickly when certain environmental conditions are present such as poor hygiene, poverty, crowded human living conditions with the more pathogenic R. prowazekii.

What is the cause of typhus fever?

Typhus fevers are caused by the rickettsiae bacteria and transmitted by arthropod like flea, mite, tick bites. When arthropods bite a victim, they leave the rickettsaie bacteria behind. Scratching the bite opens the skin to the bacteria, allowing them to enter the bloodstream. Within the blood stream, the bacteria grow and replicate.

Symptoms of endemic typhus may include:

Abdominal pain Backache Diarrheal Dull red rash that begins on the middle of the body and spreads extremely high fever (105 - 106 degrees Fahrenheit), which may last up to 2 weeks hacking, dry cough Headache Joint and muscle pain Nausea Vomiting

Symptoms of epidemic typhus may include:

Rash caused by epidemic typhus

Chills Cough Delirium High fever (104 degrees Fahrenheit) Joint pain (arthralgia) Lights that appear very bright; light may hurt the eyes Low blood pressure Rash that begins on the chest and spreads to the rest of the body (except the palms of the hands and soles of the feet) Severe headache Severe muscle pain (myalgia) Stupor

The early rash is a light rose colour and fades when you press on it. Later, the rash becomes dull and red and does not fade. People with severe typhus may also develop small areas of bleeding into the skin (petechiae).

Exams and Tests will conduct to find out if you are Positive.

A complete blood count (CBC) may show anemia and low platelets. Other blood tests for typhus may show: High level of typhus antibodies Low level of albumin Low sodium level Mild kidney failure mildly high liver enzymes

How to Treat it? Treatment includes antibiotics such as:

 

Doxycycline Tetracycline Chloramphenicol (less common) Tetracycline taken by mouth can permanently stain teeth that are still forming. It is usually not prescribed for children until after all of their permanent teeth have grown in. Patients with epidemic typhus may need intravenous fluids and oxygen.

Without treatment, death may occur in 10 - 60% of patients with epidemic typhus. Patients over age 60 have the highest risk of death. Patients who receive treatment quickly should completely recover. Less than 2% of untreated patients with murine typhus may die. Prompt antibiotic treatment will cure nearly all patients.

Possible Complications Renal insufficiency Pneumonia Central nervous system damage.

How we can Prevent it?

Prevention Avoid areas where you might encounter rat fleas or lice. 

Good sanitation and public health measures reduce the rat population. 

Measures to get rid of lice when an infection has been found include: Bathing Boiling clothes or avoiding infested clothing for at least 5 days (lice will die without feeding on blood) 

Using insecticides (10% DDT, 1% malathion, or 1% permethrin)

Maintaining personal hygiene (helps guard against lice carrying the disease) controlling the rodent population (rodents are known to carry arthropods) avoiding places where exposure has occurred (typhus has been responsible for epidemics and outbreaks) chemoprophylaxis with doxycycline (used as a preventative only in those at high risk, such as those on humanitarian campaigns in areas with extreme poverty and little or no sanitation)

Sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhus

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/mobileart.asp?articlekey=146835&page=2 

http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/typhus/overview.html 

http://www.healthline.com/health/typhus?toptoctest=expand

Protection Agent: How is the life and to become a Bodyguard or Protection agent?

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This is the life of bodyguard, how they use in business and for protection from bad element, how to become a bodyguard. What is the bodyguard today?

 

He is awake while everybody are sleeping, when everybody is awoke, he still awake. That why they fall asleep if there is a time even in duty time. This is the life of bodyguard but this situation never saw by the people who downgraded the bodyguard, what they saw is when the bodyguard sleeping while they are waiting for their VIP. 

 

What is Bodyguard? this a people or person who work to protect the life of the person who hired him, they are bullet catcher in bodyguard term, they are the one who catch the bullet intended to their VIP, by the way, what is VIP?  it’s means, a "Very Important Person" in the life of bodyguard, their boss.

 

The life and work of bodyguard are not simple they spent 90 percent of their life in their work, when they go home their family are sleeping already, when they leave the house their family are still sleeping, that is, if they have time to go home, if not, sometimes their family who are the one goes to their work site. sometime they can’t attend to their child activities and celebration.

 

Several bodyguard left by their family because of emotional distress, their wife feel the feeling of negligence, and abandonment, so, they choose to separate from his husband than to understand the work of them, it is hard to the person to keep away from their love one but they must sacrifice this love for their safety. 

 

Their work cover all aspect of job, they do, messengerial, for the safety of merchandise, they are the one who should deliver it from their VIP, they could be a driver, assistant, secretary, houseboy, helper, whatever their VIP ask them to do.

 

Their life was always in danger, their enemy knows them but the bodyguard didn’t know their enemy when to strike, they are just waiting, it’s a lucky day if they got home alive in that day.

 

In business bodyguard is a big help, they protect the businessman from bad worker, from business rival, protect company property and interest and also the job of the employee.

 

If the businessman kidnap, his company might fall because the kidnapper will ask for ransom, if the company has no enough resources to get the money, the owner will sacrifice the company just to save the VIP.

 

Bodyguard also prevented the kidnaper to get company VIP, because they don’t want problem, kidnaper also want a hassle free operation so they will choose the target who is easy to get, those without body guard, than to those who has a bodyguard that can fight and delayed their operation.

 

In the old day bodyguard is just a sidekick of VIP, a hoodlum type, big body built and look like a bull dog ready to bite who ever hurt to his master. But now its high paying job and high paying requirement to become a bodyguard, and the word "bodyguard" was obsolete.

 

Now a day, its called "Protection agent", a professional job, because it has a license to practice, you have to spend 14 thousand pesos just to train and get a license, plus the requirement that you have to get to be able to qualified to get a license this is now a legal work not like the old days the requirement is hoodlum type look and big body build, this kind of bodyguard is illegal, its call private army. No license, no papers. Unless you are a Police or Soldier. But if you are a civilian and want to practice body-guarding you have to pass the exam, to be a Bodyguard or Protection agent.
 

Here how to become a protection agent. (This for Philippines only)

• Prepare your money; estimate cost less than 20 thousand pesos.

• Complete all your papers, like birth cert, bio data, school papers (should be collage graduate) and other clearances

• Proceed to any protection agent training center and apply for training, it take 120 hours of training, included theory, defensive tactics and combat shooting, after this you will take general examination, if you pass the exam, you will graduate.

• Bring all your papers to the PNP civil security group office for the license processing,

• After you get your license, go to any security agency and apply for protection agent.

 

There is a lot of bad element who is ready to harm people but the one willing to protect others is a few, Businessman and person whose in fear can’t freely move if there no someone who can gave him assurance that he is protected.

 

We should not judge the bodyguard because we saw them, just standing, waiting, sitting or sleeping while on duty despite of their high enough salary and privilege, their life is their capital, just one click if the enemy hit them everything will gone.

We should check the things. like a banana that we must peel before we eat it.

Last morning I was taking my breakfast, a bread with egg plus hot coffee and banana, when I turn to banana, while I peeling it, a question flashed in my mind so I told my wife, why it need to peel the banana before we eat it, not like the other fruit that it can be eaten even it has a skin, my wife answer me, sound like she didn't know instead she answer me a with joke words ‘ask the monkey‘then I laugh.

I was in my work I remember my sad memories that until now when I remember it there is still a regret in my heart, I remember the people who put me down and why I didn't reason out, I let them to do what they want for me. 

They made constructive words to pinch me in the situation that I should accept without telling my side that in the end I realized, there is a mistake, now I can’t correct it anymore.

I Remember Adam and Eve.When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. (Genesis 3:6- ) Eve believe that it was good because its look good in the eye and it also the word of the serpent, so, she accept and ate it

I learned that we should check the thing before we accept it even they told us that it was good or its was what we must do, take a little look, so if there is a mistake we will know what to do, to eat or not.

Like a banana that we must peel before we eat to check if there is a defect or a worm inside, in life we should examine everything before we accept it or else we’re going to be in trouble.