Jacqueline Bermejo’s now infamous Facebook entry on Typhoon Ondoy’s devastation and human catastrophe in the Philippines:

[SIC]“buti n lng am hir in dubai! maybe so many sinners bak der! so yeah deserving wat hapend!” [SIC]“

Whoever authored such calloused statement quickly went down in infamy especially with the Filipino-web community and immediately caught Philippine-media attention.

In Biblical times sinners were punished swiftly with tangible wrath of God – as an example, The Great Flood that only Noah and his kin survived.

The righteous Noah, his family and select menagerie of animals had a second chance to restart in a new world without sinners.  We don’t have that second chance.

In Buhi’s mainly-countryside belief, that many so called learned people refer to as superstition, supernatural entities are the unseen guardian of the integrity and purity of the natural environment.  Or perhaps their conscience’s alter ego.

Defilers and destroyers of their natural environment right away are dealt with with unexplained illness, insanity or even death.

‘Nae’stapan’ is the Boie’nen concept of the supernaturals’ manifestation of their warning or punishment to offending mortal for spoiling the supernatural’ and even the natural worlds of mortals.

Supernaturals such as the ‘Enkanto’, ‘Taong Liped’, ‘Doende’ and the like are all around us. They are unseen lurking especially in remote places such as in jungles, desolate-cool streams and potable-water springs or ‘burabod’.

Perhaps if people start considering the defilement and destruction of our natural heritage such as the Lawe’d, Kaoma-an and Kabokiran as sins and punishable transgression of the Enkanto, Dwende and Taong Liped domains, many Boie’nen will have to think twice first not to be lax or derelict with their responsibilities for the protection and preservation of Boie’s environmental endowments.

Environmental transgressors will burn with unexplained fever at night, go suddenly insane or worse die of unexplained causes.  Such are how God  and the Supernatural manifest their wrath and punishment.

Such would be the fate of many elected public officials, public servants, unscrupulous businessmen who manage to elbow their fish-cages or illegally buy their way in unauthorized areas in Lake Buhi, the illegal loggers, and those who toss their garbage anywhere convenient to them and similar unconscionable people.

Sinners they are, sinners they shall be in our eyes and heart for the sake and assurance of our good-environmental posterity.

The incorrigible sinners in Noah’s time were timely served ultimatum before their final punishment – death by drowning.

Who will deliver the ultimatum to these sinners in Buhi? God? Enkanto? Taonglipe’d? Dwende?

For now let’s just wish:

Magkae’re’stapan sana adding mga bagading tawo, na sabi ngani’ ni barkadang Chris Edward P. San Luis:

MGA BAKOON NA E’DA’ PAKI LABE’T!