IRA planning the Doomsday style!

So, the world will end on next Friday, October 21 2011?. But so far, we did not hear anything from Harold this time. Many people even forgot about it. Where is Harold now? Well, it looks like he retired from his job and is in a nursing home. What happened to the money and assets those foolish people donated to him, that is worth millions? This is called a well planned retirement, the doomsday style. The cunning way of planning your IRA account.

When Steve Jobs died, a (new) Church openly said 'Thank God Steve Jobs is dead' and they said they will picket his funeral. They got the cheap popularity they wanted and it's time for donations.

'Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves' - Matthew 7:15

Judgement Day, Rapture and Harold Camping

So, the judgment day did not come as Harold Camping predicted, though he said the Bible guarantees it. What does it mean? One way this could mean that he proved Bible is wrong. Who is the loser here? Those fools who believed in him. Many people sold their assets and donated that money to Camping (May be Camping’s people bought these assets at cheap rates), some gave away, there were lots of garage sale…those who did these kind of foolish activities lost everything. And Camping? (He said he will comment tomorrow. That is May 23 2011. May be he need more time to come up with something like 'God said not enough number and hence we need to convert more' ?)

He knew Judgment day is on May 21 2011 6pm pst sharp (So, Jesus is American and he follows pacific time with daylight saving?) But he was clever enough to apply for tax extension for 2011 in advance (now he has more time to file tax returns. His plan B?)

He did not forget to renew his ‘Family Radio’ (owned by him) license for 2012

He asked for donations well in advance (for doomsday advertisement)

I don’t know what this means but they did book meetings past May 21 2011

Look at this evangelist’s financial position:

As per his 2007 Balance sheet, (that is the latest I can find. It is available in MinistryWatch.com site. His ministry is Family Stations Inc) his total assets amounted to $152 million. And as per his 2009 tax returns, he declared that he got $18 million as donations. See? this is self-explanatory...

He cleverly discounted people’s faith and converted that into money, just like many people in God business.

Next is the final episode, which is end of the world, that is going to happen exactly on October 21 2011 (as per his prediction). That is when God is going to destroy Earth by sending fire and brimstones from the sky (and kill 97% of Earth’s population and then send them to hell - 3% was supposed to go to heaven yesterday- OMG!)

When will people learn?

May 21 2011

So, for some people the world is going to end by tomorrow, May 21 2011. The placard shown by some guy here in Oakland read “Bible guarantees it”. Does it mean that the Pope did not read Bible? Or he did and did not understand anything? Come on..

But this benefited some clever guys (I do not know whether there is a nexus between the sponsors of doomsday and these guys). They came out with new life time insurance for pets at an one time premium payment, at a 'premium' price. The logic behind this scheme is that Jesus will take ONLY selected people with him and as of now animals are not there in his list. So, if the pet owner gets selected, who will take care of the pet? This insurance people takes care of that responsibility, legally. Hundreds of people already took that insurance (as per yesterday's news report)

May be some guy(s) behind this publicity stunt is going to commit suicide and he/they want to take as many scapegoats as possible with him/them… But if he/they survives tomorrow, what is there to lose? He/they got the world publicity he/they wanted and he/they can come up with something for Jesus not coming to save…. Probably a flight delay?

It's Libya...

The US got another war to fight - Libya. In what way Libya’s internal issues concerns the US? If the rocketing gas price in US would not come down after the war, I don’t know what concern it is. Is it because the US love to save the common man in Libya? you got to be kidding..

For a moment, this war made me think about the greatest war that was fought in India, some 5000 years ago. In the long past, there were 6000 odd other wars that were fought here but this war stands out because of the sheer presence of Lord Krishna in the war field which resulted in ever greatest Srimad Bhagavat Gita (He was Arjuna’s charioteer and did not fight).

This war happened some 5000 odd years ago. How civilized were the humans that time? were there any rules for fighting a war that time?

Yes, there were rules and they are clearly mentioned in Mahabharat. Let us look at some of those rules

• Warriors in chariots should attack only warriors in chariots, warriors on elephant with warriors on elephant and so on

• Soldiers on foot fight with soldiers on foot (a warrior in chariot can not shoot an arrow on to a soldier on foot but has to come down to ground to fight with a soldier on foot)

• No war after sunset and soldiers are allowed to visit the other side (just in case any of their friends or relatives are on the other side, which was the case in Mahabharatha war since it was between relatives)

• No one will attack someone without any weapon. In that case it is a man to man bare hand fight

• No attack on women, kids and elderly people

And now?

Burn A Koran for Instant Popularity ?

 Pastor Terry Jones

The day is nearing , September the 11 and his popularity got shot up. Pastor Terry Jones fond an easy way to super popularity by declaring an international day for burning Koran – 9/11

Look at the people who commented against this – The Vatican, Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie…..unfortunately the list includes the church founded by him in Germany too. 

He wanted to organize this as a major event and hence even applied for a permit with the Florida fire department (but got denied). But he says he will go ahead with his plan. If this event becomes a success, it will result in political issues between US and some Islamic countries. 

This is another example of religion falling in the hands of wrong people. When it happens, a minority or even a single person can cause damage to the majority who might have a different perception.

Isn’t it just a cheap way to instant popularity?

 

Life In A Day - July 24 2010

YouTube says:

“Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create the world's largest user-generated feature film: a documentary, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.”

“The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and will be available right here on YouTube. If your footage makes it into the finished film, you ‘ll be credited as a co-director and you could be one of the 20 contributors brought to Sundance to celebrate with Kevin Macdonald.”

 

For more details:

http://sites.google.com/site/lifeinadayfaqs/

Paul the Octopus, Germany and a Soccer Cup

Paul the octopus was born (some two and a half years ago) in Weymouth (England) and now by profession he is kind of an oracle specialized in soccer match prediction, exclusively for Germany. Currently he lives in a German aquarium. He started predicting Germany’s matches since 2008 and so far, he has 100% accuracy. 

In the 2010 world cup, when he predicted Germany’s win over Argentina, many people laughed. How can Germany beat Argentina? Well, Argentina lost the match very badly and from that day onwards Paul is getting many death threats. Now, many people want to kill him (and some even want to eat him).

Some people had predicted that Germany would win this year’s cup based on some ‘magic number’. That number is as follows:

Brazil won the World Cup in 1994;   before that they also won in 1970.  1970 + 1994= 3964

Argentina won World Cup in 1986; before that they also won in 1978. 1978 + 1986= 3964  

Brazil won the World Cup in 2002; before that they won in 1962. 1962+ 2002= 3964 

Germany won the cup in 1990; before that they also won in 1974.  1974 + 1990= 3964  

Germany won the cup in 1954 also. So, 3964 minus 1954 = 2010 and hence Germany will win the cup since none of the other team’s data match with 2010.

So I was curious about this year’s FIFA world cup since Paul predicted that Germany would lose the match to Spain in the semi-finals. Many people, including his care taker thought this time he will go wrong. It was said that Germany has good players and Spain had no star players (personally I don’t know. My knowledge about international soccer players and teams are poor) usually I do not watch soccer matches but today I decided to watch the match live, out of curiosity.

Once again, Paul’s prediction became perfectly right and now he has become a big celebrity, who might even need some extra security.  The way he predict the winner is like this – his care taker provides same food in two square boxes marked with two flags, one being Germany's and the second being the opposite team's. The octopus predicts the winner by opening and the winner’s box and eating that food first.

For me, octopus was kind of ‘sea-spider’ since it has 8 legs and I never was comfortable with octopus. But just like spiders, they always fascinated me (But whenever I read about spiders, I read it with a little fear). Somewhat same with octopuses too. I did not really like them (so far no octopus came to my dreams as nightmare….touch wood). But just because we do not like octopuses we cannot deny that they are smart, right?

Just like a cuttlefish, an octopus too has 3 hearts. Two pumping blood to gills and one to the rest of the body. These creatures have very complex nervous system and brain functions. It is said that each arm/leg can work with its own intelligence and hence some people say an octopus has 9 brains (I am not sure about this). They have great vision and they observe very keenly and analyses well. This is one reason why many octopuses managed to escape from places where they have kept as ‘captives’. They have some 'extra sense' like cats and dogs, it seems.  I saw how Paul open that box and eat his food. 

Whatever….. Great work Mr. Paul. Keep predicting.

But won’t his predictions before a match affect the team psychologically?

Oscar the Cat ...the Enlightened Cat...

Oscar was born in 2005. I don’t know the day, date or month. I have no idea how he happened to be in an animal shelter though he was cute. He got adopted by Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island (U.S.) as a therapy cat (Cats are known for making people comfortable). He wasn’t that friendly as a therapist and he once even bit a doc. His mission is different, it seems.

When he became a member of that Hospital, he was six months old (There are more therapy cats in that Nursing home). He grew up in the third floor which has the Dementia department (Dementia is a disorder where a person (usually elderly) face problems to reason, think , remember etc. Has links to Alzheimer’s). Some of the staff members happen to notice something. Whenever a patient died, Oscar was in the room.

That was the turning point. And then Oscar got closely observed by the staff, may be especially by Dr.David Dosa (I assume so coz it was he who told the world about Oscar).

Like doctors, Oscar too goes for rounds in the hospital. He enters some room, jumps up to the bed where the patient is lying and sniffs the air. If he don’t find anything odd, he moves on to the next room. If he smell ‘something’, he stays with that patient and sometimes nuzzle the patient. Within a short while, the patient dies.

Not just one or two, but so far Oscar predicted 50 deaths with 100% accuracy. Once when he tried to enter a room, the room was closed and he waited outside for 25 minutes. These days, if the staff see him cuddle with any patient, they immediately inform the patient’s relatives and many a times, they come with a priest.

Sometimes the relatives may not like a cat sitting with the patient and in such case the staff will move the car out. But Oscar will wait outside the door strolling and saying lots of ‘Meaow meaow’ and goes back to his room once the soul leave the body. If he don’t smell any more death, he goes back to his desk.

Oscar

How do this cat do this? I read many theories by many doctors and people from scientific field including a stupid theory by a qualified doc that when somebody is about to die, he/she becomes immobile and the cat finds it and sits there so that it can sit there comfortably (not verbatim). I wonder how a doctor can make such a statement? But many others say that it can smell some hormone that gets released at the last moment.

But there was this incident. Once Oscar was sitting with a patient and all the relatives were there in the room (since the hospital ppl called them) and there was this grandchild of that dying patient too. The child asked

“What is that cat doing here?”

And the mother answered:

“He is here to help Grandma get to heaven”

Whatever it be, one thing is sure. As long as Oscar is there, nobody in that ward is going to die alone. And he sees off the soul with love and compassion.

Preacher pays

Sometime ago, I had mentioned about people who are into God business (Benny Hinn for example and more can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_televangelist_scandals). Evangelism is a business for them and they live in super luxuries. We cannot blame them for their followers’ ignorance. If we closely listen to them, we can find out that many a times they say scripture or somebody from the scripture said this and that and they never tell that they believe in what they preach . They escape from places where there is a possibility of them getting exposed and next day they might say ‘God asked me to not to attend that meeting’…

Pastor Tony Alamo is one such cheater. He grew from a news paper delivery boy to a multi millionaire. He married 4 times, sexually abused minor girls and two months ago ended up in a jail with 175 years term. That means he will never come back (good God!). Today’s news said one of the US courts ordered him to pay $500,000 each to 5 women who became victims of his lust when they were minors. 2,5 million US dollars is a big money but he and his missionary has more to spare.

Why all such evangelists and their missionaries are filthy rich though they are not coming from rich families? Too much for a coincidence?

When will people learn?

Kill Kill and Kill... Peshawar blast

Yesterday, Pakistan faced the worst terror attack it had seen since 2 years killing over 90 people and injuring more than 200. This country is playing with fire since many years and now it has become world’s terror hub. The Government, Army and ISS used terrorists in many ways to ‘manage’ internal situations and then to disturb India’s peace and economy. And now it looks like they can’t control the giant that came out of the bottle.

Taliban already is on a war against India and now the funniest statement is 'India is helping them' !!! We are not that stupid to fund them to buy weapons to use against us. It is like me hiring some professional killer to kill me.

I am an Indian but still, I condemn this dirty act by Taliban, especially killing many innocent kids.

Congrates (Dhoni's) India !

Congrats Indian cricket team for a wonderful match against word’s most of the time number one, the Australia. The captain’s act was a feast to watch. The records tell the story.

Indian Captain Dhoni’s 124 is the highest by any captain against Australia

That again is the highest by any wicket keeper against Australia

India’s 354 was the highest total kept against Australia by any other team in the world

Keep it up..

Nobel Peace and Barak Obama

“And the Nobel for Peace goes to Mr. Barak Obama…”

So, they proved that the era of Nobel Prize having some esteem is gone. Or Mr. Obama has to rise to the occasion and stop doing military killings which the U.S. started years ago. He better call his troops off from Asian and Middle East countries. And he should think it over being supportive to the terrorist hub in the world, where killing is a religious hobby. He can go further by exposing some of the terrorist and military/State owned outfits and their actions using the data and evidence available with him right on his table…

I guess one reason for Alfred Nobel writing such a will could be the guilty feeling that it was his invention that resulted in the killings of hundreds of thousands of humans around the world.

Look at the irony….

Happy Onam..

Today is Tiruvonam (second day of Onam). The most important festival for the people of my native State. I had a feast at my in-laws' place. It was a good day..Wishing everyone out there a very happy and prosperous Onam...

In the name of Gays !

We have seen enough human killings in the name of religion and it still goes on and on…So religions and religious people always fight with other religions and religious people?

Last week witnessed a strange unity among the religious sect…..Lets fight our common enemy – the gays !

A high court gave a ruling favoring the gay community and this was the reason for the unity.

Religion believes in God, irrespective of which religion it is. God is the base of a religion (There are exceptions like Buddhism, I understand... but there Lord Buddha got raised into the level of God, isn't it so?). I have never seen religions uniting in the name of God. Instead, many religions grew like cell division (eg. There is only one Jesus and there exists approximately 38000 [Thirty Eight Thousand] Christian denominations). Somebody approached the Supreme court to question the High Court’s ruling. Many religious leaders said in unison that they don’t accept the rights of gays. Someone even said it’s a ‘disease’ and can be cured..

Whatever it is, it was nice to see these god-guys hugging each other..

Pakistan and the Real Face of Terror

Finally, it is official. It was Pakistan governments’ policy to promote terror. India knew it from the beginning. The US knew it. Almost every intelligence agency in the world knew it. But all others except India kept mum coz none of the countries in the world want India to emerge as a super power. They all liked to see India being troubled by terrorists. Countries like the US supported it by supplying money and weapons.

This is what the Pakistani President Mr.Zardari said the other day:

“Militants and extremists emerged on the national scene and challenged the state not because the civil bureaucracy was weakened and demoralized but because they were deliberately created and nurtured as a policy to achieve short-term tactical objectives. Let's be truthful and make a candid admission of the reality….The terrorists of today were heroes of yesteryear until 9/11 occurred and they began to haunt us as well..”

-Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Zardari-admits-terrorism-nurtured-by-govt-for-tactical-use/articleshow/4755029.cms

The US and the west will never allow India and China to become friends. They don’t want India and Pakistan to be friends either.

India said it very clearly, long ago - Pakistan did not become a victim of terror but it has become a victim of its own policies.

Now Muslims started killing each other. Mosques are getting bombed by Muslims themselves. I believe most of the common people in Pakistan do not support terrorism. The US has no right to kill the innocent Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the name of fight against terrorism. Now the US live in fear. They fear that some attack will come from somewhere. If at all any such thing happens in future, I am not surprised. The US need to understand that every nation is a proud nation for that country’s citizens.

This reminds me of a saying in my mother tongue ‘ Valeduthavan valale’ which means something like - the one who raise a sword will face a sword, one day. Its like a goon who killed getting killed by another goon.

Let us support peace and not war.

Petrol price hike

The petrol price got hiked by more than 4 rupees per liter. But we the common man with some common sense knew it, isn’t it so?

At least I knew it and I had mentioned it somewhere in a blog, when there was price cut. The cut came before the general elections just like many other election stunts. The ruling party wasn’t sure about a come back and they just took a chance. If some other party comes into power, the headache goes to them or if they win again (like what has happened now), they can increase the price and the common man would pay since there is no other choice.

Many of us already faced salary cut…many others lost jobs and now the price of all the essential commodities also will go up, naturally.

Long time ago, politics was considered as public service. But now, it has become just a (dirty) business and we find political entrepreneurs and employees and not social workers.

Once again it got proved that politicians will go to any extend to grab the power, to any dirty extend.

MJ

Mikaeel Jackson (or Michael Jackson) passed away, the other day. I wanted to write a blog the moment I came to know about his sad demise. But then this confusion about the cause of death came. Then I thought I better write once the cause of death is found out. But even after two days, the real cause of death is unknown and his body might undergo a second post-mortem. So..

If I ask myself (since nobody asked me so far) who was the first western singer known to me, it is MJ (I am not considering the band names).

The other day, I watched a TV programme on life after death. There was a street interview too as part of it. That is, they randomly asked people on the road (USA) to comment on it. I remember what one person said:

“I think it is just the beginning…”

I wish MJ all the best and happy journey…

He is my all-time favorite singer and dancer. But what can we learn from him, other than dance and music?

What do his children going to inherit? A $500 million debt?
Drugs are killer stuff for real?
How not to spend money?
What not to keep as a pets?........

Well, I guess we can learn many things..

Two Meals and a Demo

8-Jun-09

Two ‘special dishes’ became a news, last week, and awareness programme.

On was snake bitten chicken. Yes, the chicken is killed by allowing a poisonous snake to bite it. There were protests by animal rights people for using such a crude method for killing the chicken. But as usual, who listens? People even killed magnificent tigers just to eat their paws.

The second was bit exciting. It was not meat, but sweets. There wasn’t anything special about how the sweets were made but the all the excitement was about how the sweets were served. It was presented on the naked body of a beautiful woman ! I bet that the show got sold out well in advance…

How can we make people around us aware of our environmental issues? Last week witnessed such an awareness programme. The members of a particular organization drove bicycles. The specialty of this cycle ride was that they weren’t wearing any cloths. It was conducted by an international organization (of nudists? / Exhibitionists? I guess so, or at least they have such a mindset) who do awareness/protests by going naked in cycles. It happens only in ‘civilized’ and ‘developed’ countries. If anybody thought “hey, let’s spoil the environment so that we can see more such awareness”, its very very bad, I can tell you that…

An Abortion...

There are some religious people who have very strong views on abortion. Yes, strong anti-abortion views. This is a view just based on their faith/religion and not based on science. Why are they against abortion?

I own a book written by one such religious man on abortion. From that, what I understand is that his view (I guess it reflects the views of such groups) is that we do not have the right to take a life.

Dr. Tiller was one of the ‘abortion doc’s in the U.S. who was always under criticism. We can find lots of anti-Tiller sites on the net promoted by some faith groups. They describe his acts with added horror and color. It did not end on sites or pamphlets but landed in physical attacks too, many a times.

Dr. Tiller was a Christian, by all means. He was regular at church and he was the Usher in his church. As we can see, he is educated too (to read and understand a book or scripture).

Finally, the hardcore faith people won. They succeeded in killing him, the other day. After shooting, the shooter did not surrender to police, though he is ‘religious’ and follows ‘scripture’, but he ran away. He got caught, finally (by that time, he managed to travel 273 km).

What was his good deed? Did he save a life? He KILLED a human, he took a life. He created a widow. He made some fatherless. That too, when the victim was attending his church (and his wife was singing in the choir, when he was shot). May be next time they will kill the women who undergoes abortion too, though they did that at their own will. Who knows?

What an irony! If we happened to read ‘Thou shall abort the aborter’, we better re-check what we are reading, irrespective of our faith.

Yes, people can debate on abortion. But killing each other is not the solution here. That too if we believe in God. Even the God could feel ashamed when such an act done by his believer.

Well, just like any other religion based killing, religion won and humanity failed..

One more victim of the ‘opium’…

Racism in Australia

The racists in Australia attacked and killed Indians. The recent attack is just another one. Just because they have white skins, those guys think that they can pierce a screw driver into an Indian and laugh at him when he was crying aloud with pain.

It looks like the system in Australia supports such activities. I saw the CCTV recordings of one such act. Though there is such clear evidence, it was hard for the hi-tech police to nab them. Funny? Nope

When the Indian students protested, police filed case against them, calling it breach of peace. And the latest attack was from the police itself !! That tells a lot

A developed country doesn’t always mean that it has a civilized society...

Shame on you