Man is an animal who interprets facts how he wants to interprets them in keeping with the environment he is keeping with or maybe with his vested interest on mind.
Many years ago, I attended a birthday party within a religious function. After the singing of hymns, came to time commemorate the moment of the birth of the guest of honour. In rolled in an egg-less vegetarian cake (it was announced). The leader of the pack started telling the rest of the crowd on so and so's birthday and extended his felicitations. The crowd started singing the song as the birthday girl lit the candles on the cake. The climax of the event was when all candles were lit. That is it. No clapping (it is not our culture) but instead hail the greatness of the Lord instead- though it was alright when they clapped when they sang the hymns! You see, their rationale, as the 'MC' later said that was we should rejoice at the lighting of brightness, not rejoice at the extinguishing of the greatest invention of God - light (agni), which is the pillar of all civilisations)! I decided to be a gracious guest by not being a wise guy and asking, "..but celebrating birthday is not our culture and we are celebrating the birthday based on a non-Hindu calender!".
21st December 2012 came and went but we are still standing. The world, though, is still as chaotic as before. Days before the D-day (End of Days) came a hoax prophesying that Nostradamus had indeed predicted, in not so direct ways, that from the land of blooming flowers, when the man on a prancing horse hit nine zeros, the end will come (something like that). Smart alecs rationalised the land of blooming flowers as referring to Korea (why? because of picturesque Korean drama like Winter Sonata?), man on prancing horse is Psy doing his Gangnam style and nine zeros is referring to his YouTube hits reaching 1billion (1,000,000,000)! What the ....
In his effort to entice his congregation back to the path of righteousness, the priest rattled on. "Now people are more interested in their 3G and Internet connections then coming to temple. Well, I got news for you. We alsohave wireless 3G service in this temple. The first G is Gita (Bhagavad Gita), the second G being GanggaJal (the purest of water given by God to Man and the third G is the Govinda Bhajans (divine songs) which would guarantee uninterrupted Internet connections to God!".
He went on to say, "If you say you want 4G facility, there is always Ghai (Krishna's companion - the cow)!".
*A Shakespearean comedy with the famous and oft-quoted phrase, "All the world's a stage" and the origin of phrase "too much of a good thing".
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21st December 2012 came and went but we are still standing. The world, though, is still as chaotic as before. Days before the D-day (End of Days) came a hoax prophesying that Nostradamus had indeed predicted, in not so direct ways, that from the land of blooming flowers, when the man on a prancing horse hit nine zeros, the end will come (something like that). Smart alecs rationalised the land of blooming flowers as referring to Korea (why? because of picturesque Korean drama like Winter Sonata?), man on prancing horse is Psy doing his Gangnam style and nine zeros is referring to his YouTube hits reaching 1billion (1,000,000,000)! What the ....
In his effort to entice his congregation back to the path of righteousness, the priest rattled on. "Now people are more interested in their 3G and Internet connections then coming to temple. Well, I got news for you. We alsohave wireless 3G service in this temple. The first G is Gita (Bhagavad Gita), the second G being GanggaJal (the purest of water given by God to Man and the third G is the Govinda Bhajans (divine songs) which would guarantee uninterrupted Internet connections to God!".
He went on to say, "If you say you want 4G facility, there is always Ghai (Krishna's companion - the cow)!".
*A Shakespearean comedy with the famous and oft-quoted phrase, "All the world's a stage" and the origin of phrase "too much of a good thing".
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