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Hubli is a vibrant commercial town whereas Dharwad is known for music and literature. Hubli is about 190 km west of Goa and 405 km north of Bangalore.
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This is my very first post on here so be very, very kind. Maybe even sycophantic if you have it in you… ;-)
I've decided to post this in order to avoid having a drawn out and painful discussion with the original author of a Christian apology which, like arguing with a drunk teenager, is largely pointless and always entirely depressing.
The post in question was from someone called Templestream, a guy who was trolling on Atheist Revolution. His theory was the typical drivel and claimed to 'prove' god's existence based on several asserted premises which essentially came down to: Logic relies on certain rules, some philosophers think that the Quantum Mechanics break some of these rules (specifically identity), you can't explain Near Death Experiences logically, religion can, therefore god exists.
If you're feeling particularly masochistic, the article can be found here: http://templestream.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-identity-logic-and-phy...
The thing that grates with me is the dressing up in jargony philosophical language and scientific words, which is an ever increasing trait in religionist barrel scraping as they attempt to save face as the tolerance for their nonsense declines. He's even taken the trouble to produce lots of references and sources for his points, so that the innocent reader might be tricked in to thinking any of it holds water.
As you will have noticed from other religionists' posts, quantum mechanics is the new catch-all for proving that the atheists can't be certain about things, just as radiation and relativity were before them. The philosophers around at the time of these discoveries all mused about 'the profound philosophical implications' of the latest theory on the block. They also tend to throw in the usual 'Theory X fails because it can't answer the important questions like "why is there something rather than nothing" etc blah blah'.
These bloggers can be easily identified by their childlike understanding of things like scientific theories. Templestream for example get his understanding of QM from "The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (SEP)", not the best source for what most physicists find a challenging subject. He then starts wittering on about the physical and logical implications of the theory and claiming that logic is undermined by it, because someone else thought it. So the standard MO for a bible literalist then; it was in a book I like therefore it is true.
My physicist friend tells me that as it stands, QM helps you picture an electron moving through space about as well as Newton's theory of gravity tells you what gravity is or how it works. Both are mathematical tools that produce accurate predictions of experimental observations given certain inputs. They work very well, but they aren't complete and to think that a bedroom blogger has spotted that there is some implication that means everyone in the scientific community is wasting their time when they could be praying, is farfetched to say the least.
The philosophical implications go only so far as adjusting philosophy; surely nature doesn't care that we now understand how one variable changes with another, or how well we can predict the impact location(s) of whatever a 'particle' turns out to be. The SEP also manages ten and a half thousand words on philosophical implications of General and Special Relativity, where as in fact the impact of special relativity doesn't go much further than accepting the fact that it's impossible to tell whether you're moving uniformly at a constant velocity or standing still; general relativity does the same with acceleration and gravity. There's no great mystery, that's just how it appears, as far as is understood today. This makes some adjustments to prior assumptions, but there's no change to reality just because we now know.
Much of it is counter intuitive and maybe that's why the religious philosophy student tries so hard to highlight contradictions in anything other than the biblical version of reality. But then even if it were all wrong, it wouldn't mean that any other theory is automatically better; that we should look again at the "Yeah, God did it" hypothesis.
The whole Near Death Experience thing is bizarre also. After Death Experience would be worth hearing about. The dreams of a pensioner during a car crash are no doubt fun but that others have similar experiences shows only that our brains are the same model and that they appear to react in the same way in similar circumstances; what you would expect from the product of evolution and shared ancestry.
Anyhoo, rant over. I still haven't decided whether to ever join in on the 'philosophical proof' arguments; their authors are so bought in to their own work that I doubt a mere ape such as I could convince them of anything except what a miserable sinner I must be, not to truly 'see'.
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The deluded use and misuse science when it is convenient, that is when it supports their preconceived cartoon world view.
I have observed the same phenomenon among eastern religious believers regarding the cyclical universe fitting in with the idea of reincarnation and endless cycles. Big bang, expand, contract, repeat. More recently science seems to indicate the contraction is not occuring.
In their defense, it is hard for any of us to abandon our cherished beliefs.
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April 15, 2008
ABC News host John Stossel encouraged a full Salter Hall audience to embrace the efficiencies of the free market Monday night.
Stossel's talk, "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity," focused on the lessons he had learned from nearly three decades in journalism and consumer reporting. After spending years investigating faulty products and fraud scams, Stossel came to the conclusion that the government, not business, was the real problem.
"I came out of college - a more liberal institution than this - and I was taught how the world worked, which was the government could make life better," Stossel said. "I thought capitalism was okay. It brings us stuff, but it's cruel and unfair and we need government to protect us from capitalists. As a reporter I could do stories on the excesses of capitalism day after day. But then I watched the regulators at work. Now I have to conclude they don't make life better for people. They make it worse because they take our money and our freedom, and they complicate life."
The talk was sponsored by The Wabash Commentary (TWC), a conservative publication dedicated to advancing ideas and insights about a traditional Wabash. TWC collaborated with the Young America's Foundation to bring the foundation's 2008 Milton Friedman Lecturer, John Stossel, to campus. Stossel joined the ABC news magazine, "20/20," in 1981 and began doing one-hour primetime specials in 1994. Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards, a George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting, the George Foster Peabody Award, and five awards for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. He answered questions and signed books after his talk Monday night.
Stossel spoke of some of the unpredicted effects of government regulations, using both legal and illegal drugs as an example. According to Stossel, drug regulations necessarily cause drug crimes, the black market for drugs, drug-peddling gangs, and corrupt police forces while enriching organized crime and discouraging some young people from more honest work.
In the realm of legal drug, Stossel argued that the Food and Drug Administration slows innovation in medicine and possibly jeopardizes lives because of the time it takes to the agency to clear drugs for market. Instead, the system should be voluntary, so people can make their own decisions at a time that suits them.
"By interfering in the market, the government creates unintended consequences – nasty side effects that make us less safe," Stossel said. "I'm a libertarian. I think drugs should be legal. I think homosexuality is just fine. The war in Iraq may be a mistake. I don't know if we can nation build. The market will protect us even in the areas where you wouldn't think it would protect us."
Stossel used media outlets as another example where the market works.
"[ABC, NBC, and CBS] get all their profits from advertising, so you'd think they'd let advertisers run the show. But they don't. They demand word changes in half of the ads. They drive the ad agencies crazy. Sometimes they turn the money down. Why would they turn the money down? Because markets work in unexpected ways to protect consumers. In this case, they figured out they'd make more money if their ad time was not thought of as an environment for sleaze."
Stossel received a standing ovation at the conclusion of his talk. And for the most part, audience members agreed with his statements.
"I agreed whole heartedly with what he had to say," said Crawfordsville resident Pete Allen '73. "I do tend to be a free market economist in my thinking. That's the very successful way for business and society to operate. I thought the event was a great idea. I think to have a good, well-rounded education you need to have good speakers from both sides so we can make our own decisions."
Crawfordsville resident Carl Dickerson '53 disagreed.
"This is typical libertarian babble," Dickerson said. "They ignore the problems of all those who can't make it as well as the few who can. I know that the capitalist in a free market don't always have interest of the public at heart. Witness Enron. Witness Warren Buffet owing the government three-quarters of a billion dollars tax free. It doesn't work that way. There has to be regulation. There has to be some protection. Do we have too much protection at times? Yes we do. But do we have too much capitalism at times? Yes we do."
Chris Sidebottom, Editor-in-Chief of The Commentary, thought the event was successful.
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Post-webcast update: The webcast went well! We talked, we QnA'ed, we gave out a free Roadmap, and all attendees got a discount code. I've been asked several times, so I went ahead and posted the full Live Meeting recording over on www.DBARoadmap.com:
Click here to see "The Art and Science of Handling Recruiters"
As I had hoped, a recruiter attended the webcast and took issue with some of the things we said. I have a call or two scheduled with him to see if he can change my mind – or at least explain further – the ways and reasonings of a recruiter. Look for more on this in the near future! -J
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Who: Sean and Jen McCown, the MidnightDBAs (and you)
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There is nothing that fills a cyclists face with a more puerile expression of hatred than the intermingling of the terms 'criterium' and 'road race' on the same course mocka.
Just imagine. You've had your pre race feed. You've had your pre race coffee. You've had your pre race shit. You've kitted up. You've appropriately smeared your groin with chamois cream of choice. You might have heat cream and/or oil on your legs. You might have sunscreen on your face. You are ready. You are motivated. It's time to race.
You race. You get rained on (sideways rain nonetheless). You get sweaty. You get filthy. You get hungry. You get thirsty. You get tired.
But thankfully, it's all over. You can get changed. You can get clean. You can get dry. You can get warm. You can get fed.
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The Dilemmas arising are suddenly overwhelming.
|If you are lucky and it doesn't rain then it's only the stench of tepid sweat, grease and the bacteria currently copulating in your knicks that need concern you
Do I get changed? Will I get colder by getting naked in the street or will I get warmer by getting dry clothes on? Maybe I'll just jump in the van and crank the heating. Will I have to perform the 'standing on shoes whilst changing pants so that my white socks don't get wet dance'? (Yes, yes you will)
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My bike is filthy. The jockey wheels are squeeking. The brake pads are full of grit. My shoes are wet and the only thing lower than my morale is the pressure in that rear tubular I just flatted.
I need to eat, but what do I eat? How much? I don't want to have a hunger flat, but I sure as hell don't want to have salad roll reverbs on the first KOM of the afternoon stage.
I need to drink, I sure as hell don't want to cramp in the arvo stage. But on the other hand, needing to pee when the race gets thrown in the gutter is not much fun either. You think they stop for a 'pisso' in Aussie racing? Good luck with that!
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As ex-Australian Road Champ, Darren 'Lappers' Lapthorne once said
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Some people might just call me a whinger.
But that's the whole point. I am whinging, and god it feels good.
And you. Yes, you.
You know exactly what I'm talking about. Because;
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ISTANBUL, Turkey _ REACH USA Basketball cruised into tourney play with a 96-37 win over LUMS University of Pakistan. Reach placed seven players in double figures, including Lipscomb University's Michael Teller with 15 and Brandon Brown with 12. With a 3-0 record in pool play, Reach entered the tournament on a roll.
In the first round of the tournament REACH was upset by the Hoge School of Belgium 47-43 in overtime. Leading by seven headed into the fourth, Reach squandered the lead and eventually suffered the upset. Brandon Brown of Lipscomb led the REACH squad with 14 points and six rebounds.
"It's extremely disappointing not to be playing tomorrow," said Lipscomb University assistant coach Jay Walton. "The European style of ball is different than our guys are used to. It takes a while to get used to and we didn't do it today.
"The experience has been awesome though, and hopefully all these guys gained something they can carry over to their seasons."


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Iman Abdulrazzak, an observant Muslim, realized at the last minute that she needed special permission to wear her headscarf while taking the Massachusetts bar exam. She scrambled to fax her request for an exemption to the ban on hats and other headwear. She called the board's office in Boston repeatedly to make sure it got through.
No one said anything about her headscarf when she arrived at Western New England University School of Law in Springfield to take the high-stakes test to become a lawyer Aug. 1. But halfway through the morning session, a proctor placed a note on her desk: "Head wear may not be worn during the examination without prior written approval. . . . Please remove your head wear and place it under your desk for the afternoon session."
"I was like, 'Do I leave now? Is it even worth continuing?' " said Abdulrazzak, of Pittsfield, who is 24 and has worn the hijab since she was 12. "For 10 minutes, I was terribly confused. I tried telling one of the proctors that I had authorization — he kind of shushed me."
She kept working on the test. The problem was cleared up during the lunch break, when a proctor supervisor called the Board of Bar Examiners in Boston and confirmed that the office had approved Abdulrazzak's request for a religious exemption.
But Abdulrazzak said that the distraction and distress cost her about 10 minutes in the morning session and that she was not able to fully answer all of the essay questions.
"I just tried my best to get down the bare minimum of the answers in the time left and hoped for the best," she said.
The results of the exam will be posted by Nov. 1.
Marilyn Wellington, executive director of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners, called the mix-up "very unfortunate" and said the board takes responsibility for the mistake.
She said the board may consider revising its rule requiring prior authorization for religious headwear. The rule was established to prevent people from concealing notes or other information that could be used to cheat on the exam, she said, not to inhibit religious practice.
Normally, the Board of Bar Examiners notifies proctor supervisors of any test-takers who have obtained authorization to wear religious headgear during the exam.
Abdulrazzak said the proctor supervisor in her case seemed unable to find a notation of the authorization in her official binder. But she said the supervisor "was really nice."
"She apologized right away and made sure I had a complaint form," Abdulrazzak said.
The legal website Above the Law first reported the story.
Wellington said the board is looking into what happened and would take a close look at its policies and training practices "to make sure they make sense and that they don't result in issues such as this."
'It is such an intrinsic part of religious iden-tity, it would be . . . distressing to be asked to remove it.'
"It shouldn't have happened, and we won't let it happen again," she said.
Quesiyah Ali, a member of the board of the New England Muslim Bar Association, questioned why a proctor would interrupt a test-taker, rather than raise the issue before the test began.
Ali also said proctors should be made aware that asking a Muslim woman to remove her hijab in public is "a violation of the highest order," not remotely akin to asking someone to remove a baseball cap indoors.
"It would be like a nun being asked to remove a [veil] or a Sikh being asked to remove a turban," Ali said.
"It is such an intrinsic part of religious identity, it would be extremely distressing to be asked to remove it," she said, especially in the midst of a high-stress exam.
Charles C. Haynes, director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum in Washington, said that as the nation becomes more diverse, requests for religious accommodation are becoming more common in schools, workplaces, and other arenas.
"Incidents in themselves may be small and may seem not so important," he said. "But the big picture is, it's calling us to work out how we are going to deal with these differences in our public spaces as we become more religiously diverse in this country."
At least one other similar instance happened during the administration of the Massachusetts bar exam two years ago. Hania Masud, 28, a New York lawyer who took the bar in Boston in 2011, said she had not realized she needed a special exception to the no-hats rule in order to wear her hijab during the exam. During a break, she said, she was summoned to the front of the room, where a proctor told her she needed preauthorization to wear her head scarf and that they would address the issue after the test was over.
"I went back to my seat and burst into tears, which was really, really embarrassing; I never, ever cry," she said. "I was really scared they would invalidate my test scores after taking the exam."
Her brother, who was also taking the exam, urged her to focus, so she collected herself and tried her best. Afterward, another proctor told her there was no problem. The board never contacted her about it, Masud passed the test, and she never filed a complaint.
Abdulrazzak and Masud said they see no reason why bar exam-takers should need advance approval to wear religious headwear.
"If anything, maybe at the door you could sign a statement saying this is for religious reasons, so it could be used against you if you are lying," said Abdulrazzak.
Both women sat for the bar exam in other states before taking the Massachusetts exam — Abdulrazzak in Connecticut and Masud in New York — and neither encountered problems. Both states ban secular headwear such as baseball caps or hoods, but religious headwear like a hijab or yarmulke is permitted, and no prior authorization is required to wear them.
"If it's obviously religious headgear, we allow them to wear it," said Kathleen B. Harrington, administrative director of the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee.
Rhode Island has a similar policy. In New Hampshire, proctors must approve of any religious headgear at the exam site. Maine does not allow hats, and its policy is silent on religious exceptions.
Deborah Firestone, executive director of the Maine Bar of Board Examiners, said the issue has not come up in recent memory, but the no-hat rule implies that an individual should obtain advance approval to wear religious headgear to the exam. If someone fails to do so, she said, the item may be subject to inspection on site before the test starts.
"It might be time to have a written policy, though," she wrote in an e-mail.
John J. McAlary, executive director of the New York State Board of Law Examiners, said that on one occasion, a woman arrived to take the New York bar wearing a niqab, a veil that covers the face up to the eyes. Proctors needed to confirm her identity, so a female proctor took her into a private room before the test and asked her to remove her veil briefly so the proctor could make sure her face matched her photo ID. He said proctors now receive training to handle such situations.
Martha I. Hicks-Robinson, bar admissions administrator for the Vermont Board of Bar Examiners, said she would personally examine any religious headgear before the test to make sure it contained no cheating materials, as she once did in the case of a man wearing a yarmulke.
"To interrupt someone in the middle of the exam — we absolutely wouldn't do something like that," she said, unless the person appeared to be cheating.Lisa Wangsness can be reached at email@example.com.


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HMV sales plummet 15.3%
HMV UK and Ireland sales have fallen 15.3 per cent for the 26 weeks ending October 23rd, 2010.
The overall group sales - which includes book retailer Waterstones – are down 6 per cent to 749m, compared to the 797m posted in 2009. The loss after tax is at 30.5m, compared to the 17.8m loss in 2009.
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he festive period typically accounts for 60 per cent of HMV's fortunes, and the retailer warns that the first few weeks have been 'undermined by the severe weather, which has significantly affected consumer footfall.'
"The increased seasonal loss reflects the tough trading conditions in HMV UK, where good progress in growing new product categories was not sufficient to offset weak entertainment markets," said Fox.
"In Waterstone's, the recovery plan is on track, and in all businesses we are very well prepared for the important weeks ahead, with a strong line-up of offers across all product categories and a focus on delivering high quality service both in-store and online."
The retailer highlights Kinect, Black Ops, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Take-That, Cheryl Cole, Twilight and Toy Story 3 as its key sellers this quarter.


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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
"Enlightsitive" = enlightened + sensitive
Many were allergic and/or phobic to many things. It was often a pain to hang out with teachers, especially Part 2 teachers, swamis, Sahaj teachers, senior teachers. I dreaded feeding them, hosting them. They were all big time prima donnas in the name of enlightenment. I call them, "enlightsitives" = enlightened + sensitive.
Sugar, white flour, flour, grains, cereals, non-organic, coffee, soft-drinks, garlic, onion, mushrooms, frozen, not frozen, cooked, not cooked, etc., etc., etc. Or else, smells: cleaning detergents, sprays, perfumes, shampoos, soaps, dry-cleaned clothes, etc. Or else music, "that is so not sattvic. My prana is going down. Put on some bhajans." (After so many years of AoL I suddenly noticed one day I did not know what the world was listening to and I only knew the words to bhajans! Thank God they were not that difficult!). Or else, "there is such bad energy in this house, I cannot stay here" or "that person is so low, ignore him/her, it'll consume your energy field." Or else, the pita, vata, kapha! Or else, the overall belief that activities, such as, going to the movies is not sattvic. For heaven's sake! Imagine young people not living their time! Feeling guilty about partying, dating, hanging out, making out, having desires. Isn't it all part of growing up, being human, learning, discovering life and oneself? Did our parents, grandparents not do it after all? Were they that bad? That unevolved? Did the great inventors, philosophers, scientists, doctors, teachers not engage in such activities either? Were they that bad? SSRS watches movies, loves potato chips and likes that song "Besame, besame mucho" (as per a friend's translation: "Kiss me, kiss me a lot, kiss me as if this was the last time …" Interestingly sattvic ☺ !)
I was speechless when I recently heard some people even self-induced vomit or naturally vomited after being exposed to what was considered "unpure" energy, e.g. hanging out with people who belong to "the world", doing kriya with bad/low energy people, etc.!
I remember once 5 people were dumped in a room, amongst them a teacher. It was uncomfortably tight yet the teacher insisted everyone needed to move everything around (bed, wardrobes, bags, etc.) in an incoherent way for everyone but her only because she otherwise could not sleep -she needed to lie in the same direction of the underground water (or was it some energy wave?). She considered herself more evolved than the rest because of these needs. We thought she was self-centered, selfish and "looney". She was just "enlightsitive."
Eating meat was, of course, the ultimate anti-glow sin. I met some people who upon medical advise went back to eating meat. They did so with so much guilt and were constantly worried people would notice them less "bright" and sense their "bad" energy. In fact, they were sure Bhanu and SSRS discriminated them since their change of diet. At least, Bhanu kept making awful remarks to them about it. But let me see, if one has to choose between glowing and health, glowing and health... Come on, does meat-free diet ensure "glow" and purity? Glowing in the name of evolution is definitely overrated. I know so many meat eating people who are so sensitive, spiritual and loving! And I know so many vegetarians who are vicious, awful people.
I am not sure yet if the collective hysteria was brought from TM and we ended up adopting it, or if the practices created such imbalanced sensitivities and/or eliminated our "energetic immune system". I was an "enlightsitive" myself. However, today it makes no sense to me that evolution would bring such ineptness to cope with everyday life, situations and discriminate "unpure people" (as I write I am ashamed of the arrogance!). I am not invalidating the claims of anyone's sensitivities (I have my own share) but I keep wondering if a truly evolved person would make a fuss about everything, or if, instead, enlightenment is that state in which one is sensitive yet finds oneself at ease and in acceptance with everyone and anything.
I know organic, non-toxic, non-plastic, non-etc. is better (behold, I myself believe and practice this), but somehow I cannot image someone enlightened rambling, "I cannot eat this, it is not organic, it'll kill me", "I cannot sleep on this bed, the bed sheets are not organic cotton or pure silk", "you sprayed too much perfume, the toxic residues will give me cancer", "oh my pita vata!!!", "your repressed anger makes me loose my centeredness", "I cannot sleep unless my head points east."
As stated earlier, many people, especially senior teachers, considered such claims heroic and a sign of evolution. Unfortunately, imitation is the most powerful form of education.
SSRS himself also discriminated against people in that manner. There was often a say in the hallway while waiting for him: better not hang out with "blue stars" or low energy people otherwise he will not let you in ("your energy will get contaminated and he will feel it"). It was sad to notice people avoiding each other, and unfortunately, ignoring some "not dignified" souls, and of course, there was always this hidden fear one was actually the one everyone stepped away from. It stirred up awful degrading feelings. Furthermore, how many times did he refuse to stay in a devotee's more humble home because their energy was not high enough for him? (though of course, a 5 star hotel or a mansion were never a problem).
I admit I was once also an "enlightsitive." In fact, I am still sensitive to many things. However, it is funny to notice that since I left the AoL and the more time goes by since I stopped doing the practices, I feel more equipped to deal with differences and they don't bother me anymore. AoLers would explain it as I am now less evolved because I am now "in the world" and out of "his grace". I believe my organism is gradually stronger and I everyday have less AoL softwares in my hard drive. Thus, whew! I am no longer "enlightsitive"!☺
40 comments:
- Prairie Princess said...
Hysterical..didn't it make you want to spit in some of the food these people were being served? The demands of some of these people and their "requirements" were so exhausting. I met a number of senior teachers who were totally faux..narcissism would have been a step up towards normal for some of them.
I notice energy and noticed the 1st time I saw Ravi a number of dark "things" in his energy field, kind of like leeches. Doesn't sound too "evolved" to me. And explain Bahnu..does she have a stomach tumor? She didn't look healthy. She struck me as creepy and totally self-involved.
There are some physiologies that need more protein, especially those individuals of Western origins, and kapha loves the coffee and benefits from some.
If you are truly sensitive, you learn to move away from craziness in the energies of others. That is what you did by leaving. Enlightenment is about awareness and being able to drop illusion. For me, stopping AoL practices was dropping illusion. Don't know if there was enlightenment involved, but there was certainly peace.
- January 13, 2010 at 2:12 PM
- zhoro said...
Isn't it interesting how the "evolution" that is supposed to lead one to a point where one is at home with anything anywhere, beyond all duality, not-identified with the phenomenal world, totally free, the owner of Creation ... makes one so dependent on the practices, so unable to relate to those who are different, so set in a mental scheme of how things should be ... ? It is a comedy, really, thinking back now.
A specific example: there was this swami (the sweetest person, taught blessings courses in the US), who would not eat a couple of things (say, carrots and pineapple). Somebody asked him why and the answer was that these food items made him sense everything that the person in front of him had done in their life and he would just get too upset and wouldn't be able to handle it.
By the way, thinking of this swami, I am reminded of something that points to how some of AoL's money is handled. By the swami's own account, when he was considering going full time with AoL after he finished college, there was the looming matter of his father's being indebted to the government and in danger of having some land of his appropriated by the authorities. So, he was torn between getting a job and helping his family financially on one hand and devoting himself to AoL on the other. The guru told him not to worry and ended up giving him the money his father needed to pay his debt to the government, so the future swami was free to join AoL full time. If memory serves me right, it was to the tune of 18,000 rupees. After all, that the mandate of a no-profit organization, right?
- January 13, 2010 at 2:40 PM
Wow that reminds me of my TTC phase 1. As an example of how the Guru takes care of every one, our teacher related to the event when he was gifted a Maruti Alto as a birthday gift by Sri Sri. This was in 2000 and the car would have cost about Rs.220,000. Now I see if from an entirely different angle- "Where the millions go?"
- January 13, 2010 at 5:44 PM
To those who worry about "impure" foods being "un- sattvic" I say, bring on the barbeque, burgers and steaks!
Nothing more pitiful than seeing non-muscular, weak looking, skinny followers whose systems are craving some real protein.
And despite my 37 years of daily meditation, there's still nothing that get's my energy and creative juices up in the morning like a good old cup of java and some proper supplements, amino acids, etc.
For all their efforts to remain pure, their bodies can't be as functional or healthy as those who eat balanced diets. Just looking at them on the surface proves the point.
- January 13, 2010 at 7:08 PM
- a humble witness said...
This reminds me of the time when my city had the "honor" of hosting ravishankar on one of his tours. The visit was a huge ordeal, which required months of advanced planning, fund-raising, marketing, and promotion. Then a week or so before the event, we received a thick manual on "guru care", and then a few days later, a team of older teachers and devotees who were apparently experts in this "guru care" showed up at our doorstep.
So much time and effort was spent cleaning and sanitizing any of the spaces in which ravishankar would sleep, eat, shit, or otherwise set foot in for any extended period of time. His hotel room was rearranged, and so much money was spent on fresh bedding, supplies, and toiletries (all 100% organic, cotton etc.) Many other useless and luxury items were bought on a whim, which could not possibly have been consumed by a single person in the less than 24-hr period he planned to stay in our city.
His food was also a big deal, and of course he could not eat the same food as everyone else that was catered by the restaurant. One of his more senior teachers and devotees was charged with doing the grocery shopping and cooking, and then transporting it to the hotel. So much food was bought, and so much was left unused.
By the end of the event, all of the supplies that were bought, all the way down to the toiletries and bed sheets, mysteriously disappeared with the "guru care" crew. The event racked in thousands of dollars for the foundation, but when it came time to do the accounting, none of the hosting expenses were refundable. This is just another example of how we got shafted.
It is still amazing to me how much time, money, and energy people (including myself at one time) are willing to spend to entertain that man's fancies (or sensitivities, whatever you want to call them.)
- January 13, 2010 at 8:56 PM
AOL teachers especially the senior ones are a bunch of hypocrites, in the ashram and in front of Guru they are enlightened and sensitive beings but once out, they binge on coffee,tea, non satvic food etc. They love branded stuff though they teach non materialism in their courses. They want to own the latest gadgets and would make their wants known among the students and in most cases the students would gift it to them.Some of them would shop till they drop and expect the host or students to pay for their purchases.
Most of them are young, makes you wonder what experience in life they have to impart knowledge to others.
Most of them are also sickly - Bharath - the senior most teacher trainer is a bundle of ill health - he is so sick that he is not able to travel on air planes. Having said that, Bharath is one of the nicer teachers - he is unassuming and kind. God Bless him.
Some of them suffer severe back problems - wonder why the Padmasadhana does not help them.
Bhanu is a another epic altogether, a real dumbwit who is so unaware of things around her and yet she imparts knowledge. She is a shopholic - the diamond and expensive designer sarees speak volumes. And yet the Guru wants his teachers to be simple, wear white or light clothes and present a facade of simplicity.
Annoying yet amusing to observe all these antics of the so called avatar and his jingbang.
- January 13, 2010 at 9:01 PM
i have heard that story. It was Rs.12,000. If we are talking about the same sweet swami who takes blessing courses then hear this. At that time the swami had already worked for more than 2.5 months with AoL for free. He was not paid anything. He still is working for free. He happens to be a IIT Bombay graduate engineer. He served as assistant aashram manger then! that much pay for so much of work is excusable isnt it?
- January 13, 2010 at 9:33 PM
My goodness. I thought being enlightened means being one with the whole univese. Possibly people become sensitive on the way to enlightenment and harrass others unnecessarily :) I think Aolites should learn from their Guru. He seems to be cool. It could save him lot of irritation and stress. Others will enjoy a more pleasant Guru.
- January 13, 2010 at 11:08 PM
prairie princess
You said you spotted those dark leeches in the energy flield around SSRS. Those leaches could be all those creepy phonies around him. No wonder he is so stressed out and ill tempered all the time.
- January 13, 2010 at 11:12 PM
During my short term in AOL, I met few Advance course Teachers.
Everyone behaves like walking on the cloud. However, I must mention one teacher, who was my First Advance course teacher. He stayed at the non-Ac room in the month of May, alloted to him without any complaints. On last day, one devotee called for dinner, and onion was used in the dinner since the family was not aware about diet practices in AOL. We were worried that how the teacher will react. But, he take the dinner silently without any complaints.
He never talked about any magic stories of Ravishankar.
After leaving AOL, I still respect very few people in AOL, and he is one of them.
- January 14, 2010 at 12:10 AM
ROTFL...This is a priceless post !
" And I know so many vegetarians who are vicious, awful people ".
Totally agree with you. Not that I advocate meateating. But I find lots of heartless respirating compassionless cannibals among sanctimonious vegetarians.
I was under a stultifying grip of one 'swamiji' for a while. I ought to have listened to my child who told me upfront " he is no swamiji ,I don't like him". Even today I feel scared when I think of him.
After one 'bhajan session' which induced repeated yawns in me I was sso relieved to hear an old tamil film song " kanavil nadandado.." coming from a transistor radio in a teashop:))
Btw , there is a beautiful song of Meerabai that runs :-
" If vegetarianism could confer Godhood , all the goats & sheep must be enlightened ; if bathing could....all fish living in water....."
(Awfully free translation by me. Sorry)
- January 14, 2010 at 12:40 AM
- Art of Leaving said...
Funny how one of the first things I did after Ravi was through with me, was getting drunk on a few beers and watching a video of a UB40 concert once or twice over. One of the songs was the Shiva Manas Puja. And in my inebriated state I wondered if Ali Campbell wasn't perhaps an avatar under cover. I thought, well, he's got a nice stage personality, I could easily deify him instead. And who says this concert is any less sattvic than a Ravi mahasatsang? :-)
- January 14, 2010 at 8:15 AM
Unwittingly , SSRS & such conmenwomen have done something good for me.
I am no longer in awe of ultrapompous Indian IITians & IIMians;))
- January 14, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- zhoro said...
@ anon @ 9:33 p.m.
It is not much money, indeed. The point was more about the artibtrariness with which funds are handled within AoL. Paying off somebody's father's debt to the government is definitely not what AoL got its tax-exempt status for. That payment was not a payment for services rendered, it was an arbitrary outlay on behalf of Ravi Shankar for the purpose of removing the obstacle for one person to become a full-time servant of the organization. More than anything, it points to an approach which violates the grounds on which tax-exempt status is granted by the goverment.
When I sent my resignation letter to Ravi Shankar, one of the points I was making was exactly the lack of accountability for how funds are handled. In his reply, he chose to ignore most of my other points (if you haven't seen my resignation letter, you can do so at Guruphiliac's archives circa March 2008), but not this one. It must be a very sensitive one, since ultimately the very existence of the organization and the perception of it among the masses is conditional on this tax-exempt status in some way. However, as usual, his reply contained nothing more specific than the simply the claim that everything was fully accounted for. We, former insiders, know that this is not so. To my further request to be directed towards documentation proving his claim, I received no reply. No surprise there.
- January 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM
- KLIM & CO. said...
I wonder what did I not have that those swamis had that he presented them such nice gifts? That "random act of kindness" was not usual. I also dedicated my life to him and worked for free for him. No matter how much I asked him for help he never gave it to me, in fact, he removed help from me when more needed. I wonder if he did not find me as cute or was I not as hairy or as submissive or ...? I definitely brought in more money and produced more than those swamis who only walk to a satsang or course previously all organized for them (but they get the credit)! Other than how the funds were handled inappropriately, knowing about these generous gifts, I must confess, irritate me because of the unequal treatment teachers got. I find the karma argument too convenient and unacceptable :(
- January 14, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- zhoro said...
Talking about tax-exempt funds, I am wondering on what ground the massive expense for the silver jubilee celebrations was justified. What kind of charity work did that represent? What it did represent for sure was a tremendous PR effort.
- January 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM
A guru is supposed to be simple, desireless
and live very austre lives but to the contrary SSRS insists his food be served on pure silver plates,wears beautifully co-ordinated
Dhoti jubah sets, dons GUCCI sunshades which he is paranoid of loosing.
His herd like devotees find all this very cute.
- January 14, 2010 at 7:50 PM
This reminds me of a story where an indian-american waoman had lovingly cooked some indian delicacy for SSRS. That was not given to him saying she was impure! at the lunch SSRS asked for the same thing and said why its not served to him. sacred his people called that woman next day she not only cooked but served him as well. says a lot about the guru and ppl surrounding him!
- January 14, 2010 at 10:27 PM
What bhanu wears are not designer sarees. these are available in any south indian silk shops. most indian women wear that type of silk sarees. its not expensive its affordable.
- January 14, 2010 at 10:39 PM
LOL! I still remember cleaning up our teacher's house a whole day (including toilets!) because another teacher (who knew Guru-care) guided us in this cleaning endeavor (I don't recall her personally cleaning though- only us volunteers!) Well, we did it out of loyalty and love and I do not regret it even now.
But there are deeper things I am remorseful about- where the funds go, accountability? I donate to another organization which regularly sends me receipts and updates. I dont see this happening in AOL- I have mentioned this to a senior teacher but got no real answer.
Today, Haiti is crying for help. And I hear that there is Rudra puja in the ashram. I'd have thought that the seniors would have rushed to Haiti to see how they could help...not sure of what they are doing? Somehow I can't help but notice...one part of the world is crying for help...if all these pujas of mass frenzy set the energy fields right, why is there death and destruction still? (I must re-read 'Conversations with God' again...)
I think AOL is confusing everything from spirituality to social work. They wear one tag or another when it suits them. Sad...sad...sad. If you point a single thing to them, they call u an intellectual jack-ass who can never see enlightenment, leave alone spell it.
I recall a phrase from Ashtavakra Gita which Guru-ji, in his younger days, had voiced: Banda mukto bhava.
You are free. I am so happy, I am free...now I can really seek God/Unvierse.
- January 14, 2010 at 11:36 PM
zhoro and anon
the story i heard was like this government had assessed the tax on swami's father's land at Rs.600,000. they could not pay as it was more than the land's price. so they were fighting the case for months. meanwhile swami started working with aol banfalore aashram for free. after 2-3 months one fine afternoon swami was called by SSRS and was given Rs.12,000 to keep. swami refused as he had volunteered to work for free. but he was forced to keep the money. at night swamiji's father called from pune (swami was at bangalore aol aashram) saying their appeal was heard and fresh tax order has been passed. tax liability was exactly Rs.12,000. swami checked the timings of tax assessment proceedings when swami's father was with the government officer.it was approximately the same time when SSRS called swami and gave him the exact sum. pune bangalore distance is at least 400-450 kms.
swami mentioned he was a complete atheist. even now he doesnt look like much of a ritualistic religious man to me. when he was a student he appeared for Rudra Pooja without having a bath. He brushed washed his hands and face clean wore fresh cloths and aprreared for Rudra Pooja quietly. Within 10 minutes SSRS packed him off to have a bath saying swami hadnt had bath. having heard this if one take SSRS as a Guru a Master then how can one ask him questions about money?
- January 14, 2010 at 11:42 PM
This multiple repetitive syndrome SSSSSRavishankar has many hiiiggggghhhhhly qualified hindutvavadi chartered accountants as his devotess/footsoldiers.
Who have expertise in fudging accounts. As it is most indians are cheats & liars.Why would someone's bumpersticker scream:-
" Don't Cheat ! Government of India Hates Competetion!!" .
All indian politicians are same same. Now I have come to respect Rahul Gandhi & Sonia. At least they nevr call themselves godmenwomen or messiahs.
- January 15, 2010 at 12:09 AM
I went through all the posts in this blog and it has given an intresting perspective. I have done the AOL basic course and could sense the hypocrcy of the people at first sight.Its not just me but most people who did this course with me in Mysore have this perception. But some how these views are not so well propogated as compared to AOL's official view.
I was involved deeply with another spiritual group -pranic healing. I find the exact enlightsitive behaviour in this group. A senior pranic healing teacher who was initiated by the master chao kok sui avoids most people because of bad vibrations. She cannot go to cinema halls as she finds too much of lower chakra vibrations. She cannot even eat vegetarian food in hotels as she fears the emotions of the cooks have permeated the food. She also gives vibrations to food before eating. One intresting behaviour I found with her is she feels good vibrations in rich and affluent places. I dined with her once in a posh five star palace turned hotel in Mysore and she had no complaints. The place served non vegetarian food along with alcohol. But I guess the good vibrations were too powerful here.
- January 15, 2010 at 1:03 AM
Klim and company,
"I wonder if he did not find me as cute or was I not as hairy or as submissive or ...? "
This kind of sums up the AOL basic prerequisities - Cute, Hairy, Submissive. Added to this are two other spiritually ennobling qualities - Rich and Famous.
Regarding IIT and IIM grads,they are deliberately recruited into AOL (and other groups like Kalki, Nityananda, Jaggi,Ammachi, Isckon, Sai Baba). These grads form good advertising fooder for attracting recruits among some sections in India. Especially the middle class indians who hold these institutes in high regard. These IIT/IIM grads are the blue eyed boys and treated quite well in the organization and get placed higher up in the spiritual heirarchy. My AOL teacher who was what I call an 'IIT idiot' used to constantly refer to his hallowed IIT days. It was obvious he was trying to impress us with this association.
That said, there too several IIT/IIM grads who are utter failures in business, industry and general life. I know many IITians who are unable to cope up the pressure of the corporate world and try to settle in for less paying and less stressful jobs. AOL and guru cults would be a good place to hide for many of them.
- January 15, 2010 at 1:46 AM
Before the whole world start thinking indian media is uncritical about godmen. Sri Sri Ravishankar is considered as a conman and criminal in many sections of the indian media. There is a very famous Bollywood movie -Halla Bol which has portrayed a Ravishankar look alike. This swamiji among other socialities watches a murder of a bar maid taking place in a party.Since the murderers are highly powerful politicians they cover up this crime.
Watch this you tube video:
Watch from 6:40 minutes.
For those who cannot understand Hindi.
The hero (Bollywood star Ajay Devgan) asks swamiji to help him uncover the truth of the murder as he is an eyewitness. The swamiji replies in characteristic ravishankar style that the whole external world is an illusion and we all need to go within and find solutions from within.
To this the hero replies that the swamiji's true colors have come out in the open and Swamiji is an empty shell from his mouth to his asshole. A man of no integrity.
- January 15, 2010 at 7:35 AM
Ah! Speaking of money i heard this story about SSRS from a volunteer.
This Bharat bhaiya (now a swami) one more rishi and a swami were at a shopping mall in Singapore with SSRS. Bharat being SSRS's then secretary was holding SSRS's wallet. They finished shoopping and goodies were loaded into the boot and SSRS was seated. Other men went into the mall to pay the bills. lo and behold they were short of cash by some 300-400 dollars. Everyone emptied their pockets but there was nothing. SSRS's wallet was searched thrice over but there was nothing inside. not a dime. SSRS was getting impatient not knowing what kept his men. He tried to walk out of the car but bharat assured him that they were just paying and coming out. At last when the men didn't have any other choice bharat had to walk upto SSRS and gave him the news that goods may have to be returned. SSRS was disbelieving. SSRS said to bharat it is not possible that his wallet could be empty. Bharat silently handed him the empty wallet. SSRS casually asked how much they were short and bharat informed. From the same empty wallet out came the dollers and the bills were paid.
- January 15, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Anonymous @ 10.39pm
Sorry to disillusion you but what Bhanu wears most of the time are expensive designer stuff - my wife has accompanied her on her sprees once upon a time and she knows for sure they are not ordinary garb.
Please tell me which shop I can find those unique designs - I would like to purchase a few for my wife.
Please dont blurt if you dont know the facts - we all know all the pro AOLites cannot accept the truth - truth sure does hurt.
Get real man
- January 15, 2010 at 10:35 AM
ROTFL.....nonstop friends for coming up with:-
" IIT idiot " &
"..she feels good vibrations in rich and affluent places".
Thirumoolar says " kurudum kurudum kuruttaattam aadi kuzhi vizhundhavarae ". Meaning a nutcase enlightening a nutcase;))
But don't you ever feel sorry for the celebs falling at their feet. They deserve such avatards. False prophets are the decoys for the non earnest.
Oh God! Simply savouring this IIT idiot thing:))
- January 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- KLIM & CO. said...
Not only are the sarees designers made and expensive, but her jewelries are bigger everyday, and her purses also not fake. When someone once noticed her brand-name purses were not imitation, surprised by the incoherency of the action, she was innocently asked if it was real or imitation. Offended, Bhanu replied her stuff was never imitation. Is she aware of the price of those purses and that priding to own one is not advisable? The cost of one can feed at least half a village in Southern India! Not to mention, non-vegan purses - it is not OK to eat them but OK to carry them ... what about the men explotation that occurs in diamond mines to make her bracelets and earrings? Will those people eliminate karmas because they had the luck to dig the diamonds for the sister of the self-claimed enlightened?
- January 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- zhoro said...
Anon @ 10:00 a.m.
I am not sure which part of this story you find significant. I'll tell you what I find most significant. It is the fact that the devotees' attention is drawn to the topic of special powers. That is counter-productive on the path to truth and only impresses the immature. What it is very productive for, however, is establishing and perpetuating a mythology that keeps those immature ones in cultish awe of the leader and as far from truth as possible. Mind you, I am not saying that so called siddhi do not exist. What I am saying is that their existence is real only with respect to the subject who should be the actual target of investigation. Sadly, this get lost to the typical AoL devotee among the tons of mumbo-jumbo.
Well, another potentially impressive thing about the story is the amount of that shopping bill, given that only the shortage amounted to $300-$400. :)
- January 15, 2010 at 2:31 PM
- KLIM & CO. said...
We actually believed in that kind of pathetic magic-thinking stories! While I read about the $300-$400 dollars missing story, I kept remembering all the times I even believed those stories. He would tell them in heroism, and we'd back them up with "ah!" like stupid, brain-less airheads. Funny, today when I read it, I thought, "I wonder what Bharat had in his head. Maybe he is not as smart after all." This hyperventilation does kill brain cells! What was this story fabricated for? To convince us he is something special because he can manifest money? He then criticizes Sai Baba all the time for solely feeding the faith of his devotees in miracles. Why doesn't he manifest some money now for Haiti? Or can he manifest only a couple hundreds per day?
- January 15, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- zhoro said...
Klim, he may not manifest money for Haiti, but he can always claim that he is taking care of things on a higher level somehow. A puja or two, a meditation and just watch how Haiti is transformed in no time.
- January 15, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Klim & Others ,
Know what , I feel so happy & tranquil at last I don't celebrate any festivals . I don't feel guilty either.
The immensely popular parable of the Missing Tenth Man told by Ramana Bhagavan , we the guileless can now rejoice !
I had posted in Jody's blog earlier the following fact told by another person. That ssrs & his father are very much responsible for Indian Bank ex-chairman imprisoned for alleged financial embezzlements.
Also many indians know in the seventies the near bankruptcy was tided over by the country by pledging lot of gold from puttaparthi baba. How did he get so much gold & from where ??
You dare not ask these questions .This is vandematatammerabharathmahaanindia. Period. India has perfected the art of blaming everything on AmericaBritainPakistanChina. LOL..
- January 15, 2010 at 2:45 PM
AOl => Arrogance of Living.
Yes, after I did my basic course and after a few months, I wanted to participate in it again, as it is supposed to be free. I got sms from Lata (AOL Teacher) about the start of the course. When I called her, she said 'Why you want to do it again?.Spread the word and bring new comers.' Such was the arrogance and worst attitude that I feel sick of AOL. I am waiting for the day when SSRS would be behind bars, and the entire AOL assets would be confiscated by CBI.
- January 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM
" the entire AOL assets would be confiscated by CBI ".
No. I prefer FBI.
Seriously as CBI I am sure would have many ssrs followers. Puttaparthi is still a fugitive from Justice because of protection from many law enforcers , politicians , police force etc.
India's moral quotient is negative.
- January 19, 2010 at 10:30 AM
To Anonymous
"All indian politicians are same same."
"India's moral quotient is negative."
"No. I prefer FBI."
Please spare the sermons on the integrity of FBI to american conservaties.
I hope this blog does not reduce into some india bashing blog. India / Indians have several problems /Idiosychrasies. Not that other nationalities are exempt from these. Also, stereotying a billion odd people as lacking in values and ethics is stretching too much.
You are similar to AOL who also use strong sterotypes in their propoganda. Indians are spiritual and destined to be the guru country of the world, rishi bhumi and so on.
- January 20, 2010 at 5:37 AM
panduranga ,
Spare me your presumptuous self anointing please.
If you are so convinced of indians' spiritual quotient you would not be pounding anaemic defensive replies. With the plaintively cliched " let this blog not..." entreaties.
Truth hurts.
- January 20, 2010 at 7:56 AM
- Art of Leaving said...
To Panduranga & Anonymous
All countries/cultures have their positive and negative aspects. It's good if problems are pointed out and debated, but it becomes harmful when one stereotypes the entire population. It is just as dangerous to eulogise a particular culture (or an aspect of it) too much – whether Indian or American, "East" or "West".
I know I have not had wide exposure to everyday life in the cities and rural areas of India. But from the little that I saw it seemed to me that many people work very hard in India. Often it is terribly long hours under difficult conditions, with little pay. This applies not only to those doing physical labour; but also those with reasonably good office jobs in IT and publications. When I saw how some people are at their posts from before sunrise to after sunset all week long, I wondered how on earth the stereotype arose that Indians are "laid-back" or "lazy". It just didn't seem to be borne out by reality. The few professional people I had to deal with were efficient and accurate in their work, so there goes the "Indians are inefficient" stereotype.
A few times I was taken advantage of and overcharged by opportunists, but more often than not people were honest and fair. Sometimes bystanders even pointed out to me I am being cheated or tried to protect me from forms of exploitation. Overall people were friendly and offered help of their own accord, especially when I travelled by public transport. E.g. when I travelled third class by train in those horribly overcrowded compartments all the way from Mumbai to Bangalore people looked after my stuff and kept a seat open for me whenever I went to the loo, they told me what station I needed to get off at and helped me find transport at a reasonable price.
Despite all the turmoil I went through in India with RS and company, I fell in love with India the five months I was there. It was like a kind of death when I had to leave. I would still like to return.
- January 21, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- Art of Leaving said...
I completely agree with Panduranga that "stereotyping a billion odd people as lacking in values and ethics is stretching too much". But it is equally stretching it too much to say that "Indians are spiritual and destined to be the guru country of the world". I no longer think that India (or any other area of the world) has all the spiritual solutions for the world ready-made.
After I returned devastated from my RS adventure, I went to see a Taiwanese Master who had known me for a few years. I wanted his advice because I was unable to make sense of what happened between RS and me, and was still crying and sleeping most of the time, and it's been going like this for eight months and not getting better.
He said to me: "Why you want Guru?! - More delusion! You think Guru has a secret. There is no secret. Master just hints you. Then it gets brighter and brighter, until Your Bright! Otherwise Master also speaks from his experiences. Can you study another universe to understand this universe? No, you cannot. You have to study this universe to understand this universe. Can you take a system from 200 years ago and use it today? No. But you can use it as yeast (stomach)." (i.e. as a catalyst to come to your own knowledge). He said, "Wake up quickly! Become a Master!"
Well, I haven't woken up yet, nor become a master, but since then I no longer take any system of knowledge or scriptures – whether from India or elsewhere – too seriously. And I am no longer upset if I disagree with any Master's views (including the views of the Master who gave me this advice). I always wondered whether a Master's knowledge is relative to her/his experience like everyone else's, or if it can lay claim to being at a higher level or more absolute in some sense. This Taiwanese Master helped me get clear on the relativity of ALL knowledge, including those attained in so-called higher states of consciousness. He was too much of an austere jnani to be able to help me heal my broken heart, but he effectively helped me claim back my intellectual independence.
- January 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM
AOL teachers are such drama queens!!!. Acting in such a childish (not childlike) manner. It sounds like a page right out of lord of the flies. Is a little bit maturity too much to expect ?
- February 19, 2010 at 4:39 PM


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Adam Levine in Details Issue: 'I Just Really Love Women'
Adam Levine, the good-looking and stylish man that he is, covers the June/July issue of Details, just in time for Maroon 5's 'Overexposed,' which drops June 26.
In addition to looking stylish in black and white photos, where he "shaves" his head and is cloaked in a simple, clean, white tank, Levine offers a stare that allows a peek into his soul. The five o'clock shadow that's become his signature is also present in all photos.
As for the feature itself, he goes deeper. Levine, who only recently split with model GF Anne V., admitted that being alone strikes fear in his heart. "I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone. I travel in a pack. I like to be surrounded, not just with my boys, but with family, too."
He also spoke about why he is so popular with the ladies, in addition to his boyishly handsome good looks, which get an extra edge thanks to his copious tatts. He's hot, but that's not solely why girls are drawn to him. It's his understanding of the female species.
"One of my theories on why I'm so capable of understanding women is that after my parents split, my mom moved in with her brother's ex-wife—my aunt—who was also newly single," he revealed. "So I was living in a house with two jilted women, plus my cousin, who's more like my sister, and my brother, Michael, who we eventually find out is gay. Just the estrogen alone . . . You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls." Whoa! What an emotional hot plate that situation must've been. Still, it worked in his favor.
While Levine is a "natural" when it comes to hollering at girls, he dissected to the two types of men, in relation to women. "There are two kinds of men," he theorized. "There are men who are f—ing misogynist pigs, and then there are men who just really love women, who think they're the most amazing people in the world." Of course, he is in the latter group, saying, "And that's me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous, and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much."
That's quite a theory, Adam. Does it hold water? Maybe a little bit. It's a good excuse for sleeping around, though. Better than others we've heard over the years.
In the behind-the-scenes video, Levine answers rapid fire questions about his favorite band of all time (hard to choose); his first celeb crush (Wonder Woman); a fashion trend he dislikes (he prefers solids to stripes); and his fave L.A. hangout (home!)
Watch Adam Levine Behind-the-Scenes Footage at Details


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The Roberts Court and the State Courts
Jason Mazzone
Thank you to Jack for inviting me to blog here. I teach Constitutional Law, American Legal History, and Intellectual Property Law, and I will mostly post on topics in those areas.
My current project involves research on patterns of Supreme Court review of state court decisions. I am compiling detailed information on such things as how many cases from the state courts the Supreme Court has decided since 1790; how reversal rates have varied over time; which kinds of federal issues the Court has reviewed and how the types of cases have changed over time; which state courts have been reviewed most often; and the Court's voting patterns in deciding cases on review from the state courts.
With the Roberts Court now at five years there is enough data to draw some conclusions and make some predictions about its orientation towards state courts. The bottom line is that compared to its predecessors, the Roberts Court is reviewing fewer cases from the state courts but reversing a higher percentage of them. In other words, the Roberts Court is intervening only to correct the most serious errors by the state courts.
The number of cases the Supreme Court hears from the state courts has been dropping for a while. From 1950 to 1990, the Court averaged about 37 cases per term from the state courts (about 25% of the Court's docket). From 1990 to the 2004 term, the Court averaged about 15 cases from the state courts. If we look at just the last five terms of the Rehnquist Court, it heard an average of 14 cases per term from the state courts.
So far, the Roberts Court has heard an average of only about 11 cases per term from the state courts. And it is reversing at a higher rate than in the past. From 1990 to 2004, the Court reversed on average two-thirds of the state court cases it heard. If we take just the last five years of the Rehnquist Court, the reversal rate was about 70% per term. The Roberts Court has, over its first five terms, reversed on average 77% of the state court cases it has reviewed. And if we take out the 2005 term—in which the Roberts Court inherited cases from the Rehnquist Court—and look just at the most recent four terms, the trend is even more striking. During the past four terms, the Roberts Court has heard about 10 cases from the state courts per term, reversing on average 84% of the cases it has reviewed.
Last term on direct review, the Supreme Court decided just eight cases from the state courts (plus one case, Sullivan v. Florida, which was dismissed as improvidently granted, and Briscoe v. VA, which was vacated after oral argument). Even though state courts decide far more cases than the federal courts, the Supreme Court took fewer cases last term from all of the state courts combined than it did from some single circuits (the 7th, the 9th, and the 11th). State courts last term on direct review did very badly. Every decision of a state court the Supreme Court heard was reversed or vacated, with one exception: Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (rejecting the doctrine of judicial takings).
There was also a high degree of concurrence among the justices with respect to the state court cases. Two cases were unanimous. Four were decided 7-2. One was 6-3. And just one case, Sears v. Upton, was 5-4. In other words, state courts that were reviewed got the law wrong by a broad consensus of the Supreme Court.
All of the state court cases last term were criminal cases except for Stop the Beach Renourishment, the only civil case, and the only affirmance. Of the criminal cases, just three decisions reversed state courts that ruled in favor of criminal defendants: Maryland v. Shatzer (allowing police to resume questioning after a break in custody), Michigan v. Fisher (police could rely upon the emergency aid exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement when they saw in a home an individual with a cut on his hand who was threatening others), and Florida v. Powell (Miranda warning that did not specifically advise of the right to have a lawyer present during questioning is adequate). The other criminal cases the Supreme Court decided end up being more protective of criminal defendants than was the state court.
Besides direct review, the Supreme Court also reviews indirectly the decisions of state courts by habeas review. The Court last term heard fifteen habeas cases (i.e. nearly double the number of the cases it heard on direct review) involving state court convictions or sentences. In the majority of the habeas cases, the Court affirmed what the state court had done and reversed a lower federal court granting the petitioner relief. In just two cases last term, the Court ruled in clear favor of a habeas petitioner: Magwood v. Patterson (holding that a petition challenging a new sentence after winning habeas relief is not a second or successive petition) and Porter v. McCollum (holding unanimously in a death penalty case that a lawyer who failed to bring forth evidence about the defendant's war record was ineffective under Strickland). The Court also showed a high degree of consensus in the habeas cases reviewing state court convictions and sentences. Just three cases were decided 5-4. And eight of the cases, more than half, were decided 9-0 (though of those, six were by summary reversal).
There has been much speculation about whether the Roberts Court will continue the Rehnquist Court's federalism revolution, which centered upon protecting state legislatures and state executives. While it is too early to draw firm conclusions, so far at least the Roberts Court has not demonstrated a strong commitment to extending the Rehnquist Court's own federalism decisions. However, whether by accident or by design, something important may be happening with respect to the relationship between the Supreme Court (and by extension the federal judiciary more generally) and the state courts.
As measured by its review and reversal rates, the Roberts Court is showing remarkable deference to the state courts on issues of federal law. The revolution might be taking a new form.
In future posts, I'll discuss some implications of this development.
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Mayor-elect Says He's 'Cleared The Air' With NYPD
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio says he's "cleared the air" with NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly after the city's top cop told Playboy magazine Democratic candidates were "pandering" when they criticized stop-and-frisk policies.
De Blasio visited the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network on Saturday. He said he had a good conversation with Kelly on Friday and they are moving forward.
In the December issue of the magazine, Kelly said de Blasio and other Democrats were "pandering to get votes," in criticizing stops of young black and Hispanic men. The city is appealing a judge's ruling it violated the Constitution in the way it carried out the stops.
De Blasio has said he won't keep Kelly as commissioner. The NYPD didn't immediately return a message seeking comment.