Last blog we spoke about Bodhi Tree. What can you think of when you think about Bodhi Tree? Godmen. Well, divine wisdom but since such things stopped happening like hundreds of years ago, we will consider people who claim that they have divine wisdom. Also, we like this idea of calling ourselves us. So we will start that from today. We will explain, but let's start with a bulletin first.
Sathya Sai Baba died on Sunday. Are we sad? Not exactly. Now don't mark us as a bad person (Actually, we do not care.) because we do not respect the ethical idea of "respecting the dead". People whom you have hated or were indifferent to do not become great by just dropping dead. It may depend on how that person dies. If its in a huge fireball while driving a Lambo, it may. Anyways, we never liked the fellow. Sure. He has done some great charitable work. But as a person we never liked him. We are unsure on whether it is because of the Godmen part or because of all the sexual escapade stories. But we have to admit. He has spent thousands of crores on hospitals, eduaction, clean water facilities, sanitization. Indians shoulld be grateful to him. We will not accept him as a Godman. He has millions of followers. If he were just a social worker, we would have been too. But the moment you start comapring a good work to God work, things get complicated. We have never been fans of Godmen and politics that revolves around it inevitably.
We will tell you why we are against Godmen. Its not because we don't believe in God. We do. (Epecially after Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, we also beieve he occassionally is kind to human race.). We have read Abraham Kovoor and AN Murthy Rao and have realized that all this magic stuff is pretty much balderdash. We did read them explaining all the stuff in some eye opening books. When Mr Kovoor repeated the tricks done by the Godmen and requested to meet the Godmen to discuss, they refused to acknowledge his request let alone reply. Its a shame. We would have seen some major revelations if he had met a few. He would have unmasked a few and brought them back to earth. While we agree that people need to believe in something to face their troubles, we would explect it to be themselves. Why not believe in oneself? If you can believe that God created Godmen, how hard is it to believe that same God created you?
And now we will tell you why, even with our Anti-Godman view, we will still aspire to be one. We have seen how the Government usually pimps Godmen. Ever since we started to think on our own (fairly rare occurence that. still.. it counts.. ), we have seen people in a position where they can exploit others. Now thats how powerful we want to be. We have seen many fraudsters acting as Godmen and cleaning up funds ( and knocking up ladies. Its a controversial topic. Let's not go there.). Because we want to be pimped as a power broker. First step is recognition. Who better to recognize the power that oneself? But we are not going to care much about others' opinions . We are not here for the ladies but who says no to money and power? (Now we do not drive on the other side of the road. We are married and committed to the one lady we have.)
The Government likes Godmen. Why is it? We think it is because they control a majot vote bank share. If they diss the Godman, they will lose the voters. Is it easy becoming a Godman? Step 1. You need to be good with magic tricks. I mean quite good. Step 2. You capture a few supporters and convince them that God above has sent you. Step 3. You are hailed as a God. Pretty straightforward that. Well, you (Yes. You.. there. ) think we may have some issues with common sense? History suggests that it has worked on many till now. And Money and power pretty much truimph goodwill. You can check history lessons if you want.
Now, just because we are at the topic of Godmen, we would like to take a moment and point our fingers and laugh heartily at Nithyananda. Agreed that he is not the first Godman who got caught "preaching" private lessons to a lady devotee. Few have fallen harder. But come on. How dumb do you have to be, to get caught? Almost all stories we have read which have Godman as a villain, have them doing lot if this "preaching" and granting children to childless mothers stuff. And some had CD angle too. If they had read at least one of them they would have been smarter.
Ok. We have just thought about another point and that has lead us to a slight confusion. Kings talk about themselves in plural. A King gets pretty good share of money and power as well. We like this idea very much. So we will do it anyway. But we are confused because we need to decide what we will be. A king or a Godman. We are planning to keep a good name for ourself as well. So should we be ChaTa chakravarthi or Chakotaananda, we have not decided. Please do email us if you can find a better name. Also, don't point about marriage. Marriage does not come in the way of being a King or a Godman now. Kings are married. And have you ever seen the advert of that Kalki fellow with a beard? He has a family. So do we. We need some time to decide.
By the way we saw a movie on saturday evening. It was called "Super" and had Upendra and Nayantara. It was the first time ever that a Kannada movie was screened in Charlotte. Now we were not going to miss this historic event, were we? We darned well were not. After sitting for two and a half head ache inducing hours, we had no idea why the movie was called Super. Dialogues, screenplay, songs, acting. None were. We saw a good example of over compensation we feel. The story is about how Karnataka becomes a super power by 2030. International airport in Mysore, everyone waering traditional attire, 80 Pounds per Rupee, white people as workers/cleaners/beggars/taxi drivers, Ferraris and other high ends cars as Taxis. Fantastic dream that one. We have been a great fan of Fantasy Genre (Except for LOTR. sorry you hobbits and the fans but a Snoozefest that one..). But this movie is a little overcooked. You need to back a good story with other elements. We sat through the entire movie waiting for Uppi's punch and we were very disappointed. Upendra is a good actor and a wonderful director and normally has his way with words like Fardeen Khan has with coke. We hope he comes up with something better next time.
Sathya Sai Baba died on Sunday. Are we sad? Not exactly. Now don't mark us as a bad person (Actually, we do not care.) because we do not respect the ethical idea of "respecting the dead". People whom you have hated or were indifferent to do not become great by just dropping dead. It may depend on how that person dies. If its in a huge fireball while driving a Lambo, it may. Anyways, we never liked the fellow. Sure. He has done some great charitable work. But as a person we never liked him. We are unsure on whether it is because of the Godmen part or because of all the sexual escapade stories. But we have to admit. He has spent thousands of crores on hospitals, eduaction, clean water facilities, sanitization. Indians shoulld be grateful to him. We will not accept him as a Godman. He has millions of followers. If he were just a social worker, we would have been too. But the moment you start comapring a good work to God work, things get complicated. We have never been fans of Godmen and politics that revolves around it inevitably.
We will tell you why we are against Godmen. Its not because we don't believe in God. We do. (Epecially after Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, we also beieve he occassionally is kind to human race.). We have read Abraham Kovoor and AN Murthy Rao and have realized that all this magic stuff is pretty much balderdash. We did read them explaining all the stuff in some eye opening books. When Mr Kovoor repeated the tricks done by the Godmen and requested to meet the Godmen to discuss, they refused to acknowledge his request let alone reply. Its a shame. We would have seen some major revelations if he had met a few. He would have unmasked a few and brought them back to earth. While we agree that people need to believe in something to face their troubles, we would explect it to be themselves. Why not believe in oneself? If you can believe that God created Godmen, how hard is it to believe that same God created you?
And now we will tell you why, even with our Anti-Godman view, we will still aspire to be one. We have seen how the Government usually pimps Godmen. Ever since we started to think on our own (fairly rare occurence that. still.. it counts.. ), we have seen people in a position where they can exploit others. Now thats how powerful we want to be. We have seen many fraudsters acting as Godmen and cleaning up funds ( and knocking up ladies. Its a controversial topic. Let's not go there.). Because we want to be pimped as a power broker. First step is recognition. Who better to recognize the power that oneself? But we are not going to care much about others' opinions . We are not here for the ladies but who says no to money and power? (Now we do not drive on the other side of the road. We are married and committed to the one lady we have.)
The Government likes Godmen. Why is it? We think it is because they control a majot vote bank share. If they diss the Godman, they will lose the voters. Is it easy becoming a Godman? Step 1. You need to be good with magic tricks. I mean quite good. Step 2. You capture a few supporters and convince them that God above has sent you. Step 3. You are hailed as a God. Pretty straightforward that. Well, you (Yes. You.. there. ) think we may have some issues with common sense? History suggests that it has worked on many till now. And Money and power pretty much truimph goodwill. You can check history lessons if you want.
Now, just because we are at the topic of Godmen, we would like to take a moment and point our fingers and laugh heartily at Nithyananda. Agreed that he is not the first Godman who got caught "preaching" private lessons to a lady devotee. Few have fallen harder. But come on. How dumb do you have to be, to get caught? Almost all stories we have read which have Godman as a villain, have them doing lot if this "preaching" and granting children to childless mothers stuff. And some had CD angle too. If they had read at least one of them they would have been smarter.
Ok. We have just thought about another point and that has lead us to a slight confusion. Kings talk about themselves in plural. A King gets pretty good share of money and power as well. We like this idea very much. So we will do it anyway. But we are confused because we need to decide what we will be. A king or a Godman. We are planning to keep a good name for ourself as well. So should we be ChaTa chakravarthi or Chakotaananda, we have not decided. Please do email us if you can find a better name. Also, don't point about marriage. Marriage does not come in the way of being a King or a Godman now. Kings are married. And have you ever seen the advert of that Kalki fellow with a beard? He has a family. So do we. We need some time to decide.
By the way we saw a movie on saturday evening. It was called "Super" and had Upendra and Nayantara. It was the first time ever that a Kannada movie was screened in Charlotte. Now we were not going to miss this historic event, were we? We darned well were not. After sitting for two and a half head ache inducing hours, we had no idea why the movie was called Super. Dialogues, screenplay, songs, acting. None were. We saw a good example of over compensation we feel. The story is about how Karnataka becomes a super power by 2030. International airport in Mysore, everyone waering traditional attire, 80 Pounds per Rupee, white people as workers/cleaners/beggars/taxi drivers, Ferraris and other high ends cars as Taxis. Fantastic dream that one. We have been a great fan of Fantasy Genre (Except for LOTR. sorry you hobbits and the fans but a Snoozefest that one..). But this movie is a little overcooked. You need to back a good story with other elements. We sat through the entire movie waiting for Uppi's punch and we were very disappointed. Upendra is a good actor and a wonderful director and normally has his way with words like Fardeen Khan has with coke. We hope he comes up with something better next time.
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ReplyDeleteKickass writeup dude. And add Gal Gadot to the list pls
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