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Inventing India—Again and Again

Revathy Gopal March 1, 2004

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#34 Posted by harimau on March 8, 2004 9:29:54 pm
Ref Walking Brain-Dead Maasanamuthu #33

So, tell us folks who stupidly believe in God, is Allah for real?

We are all agog to know what the Rational Atheist has to say about Allah.

I promise, if you answer this one question, I will never dog you again!
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#33 Posted by soysauce on March 8, 2004 1:10:03 pm
#22 ballukhanji
Was there a nationwide blackout for a few hours after saibaba laid the golden egg? In that case it could have been a miracle. Producing one gram of matter requires the energy equivalent of at least 25,000 MWatt-hour! That`s disregarding the fact that the matter had to be gold atoms arranged macroscopically into a sheet and in the shape of an egg. The sad part of all this is many physicists from all over india visit saibaba regularly.
One of them told me that saibaba materialized a ring for him and he showed it to jewellers in Holland who could not identify the gemstone. Not only did saibaba create something out of nothing, he also had created a hitherto unknown material. I bet saibaba the materials scientist could singlehandedly bring india out of poverty..

#31 rsridhar
Hehe, couldn`t help interacting with this idiot there, could you? But i notice that you still ran away from substantiating the baseless accusations you made against me. What can we expect from a pedophile-saibaba miracle believer?
I agree with you tho that harimau is like a dog. I had mentioned earlier that he`s a like a dog barking at automobiles convinced he`s in charge. But of course it took a culturally refined scatologist like you to equate his posts to a dog crapping all over. You could be right...
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#32 Posted by plats8 on March 7, 2004 11:37:19 am
Rsridhar #30.

Excuse me ? Why do I need to be someone`s alter ego to point out
obvious inconsistencies in someone else`s post ? Soysauce is not the
only one with intellectual pretensions here.

Please go back to my earlier post (#20) and explain your comment.

Harimau #28,

``Sai Baba is spending Rs. 2.5 billion (Rs. 250 crores or US$ 55 million) of
the funds he has raised to dig irrigation canals and bring water to the
parched lands of Telengana. ``

Philanthropic altruism, I am not denying. Somehow, I don`t think that
this was the miracle being hinted at in the post in question.

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#31 Posted by rsridhar on March 7, 2004 7:38:26 am
re:#20 by plats8
What is your problem man? Are you Soysauce`s alter ego?
Sridhar
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#30 Posted by rsridhar on March 7, 2004 7:38:26 am
re:#21 by soysauce
One need not have to run away. I decided not to interact with idiots like you, that`s all.
If you think you have proved anything, you are wrong. Besides, Harimou is doing to you what a dog would do to a pole, if you know what i mean. I think one person is good enough for you.
Sridhar
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#29 Posted by harimau on March 7, 2004 1:00:26 am
Ref harimau #24

[By the way, The Fund of Compassion has called his alliance with the All-India Muslim League and the Congress (led by that devout Roman Catholic Sonia Gandhi aka Antonia Mano) the Democratic Secular Alliance. I guess the only thing secular about that is there are supporters of Hinduism in that alliance.}

Make that ``I guess the only thing secular about that is there are NO supporters of Hinduism in that alliance.``
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#28 Posted by harimau on March 6, 2004 7:00:57 pm
Ref Rational Atheist so far as Hinduism is Concerned #21

[Hey rsridhar,
Did you run away?]

I notice -- as also all the Chowkies -- that you run away from answering these simple questions:

Are only Hindu gods fake? How about Allah and Jehovah? Are they for real? If they are real, would you get yourself circumcised, change your name to Abdullah and do namaz five times a day? If not, are you willing to say on Chowk that Muhammad and Jesus were control freaks who invented false theories regarding religion and religiosity?

I am sure we will have to wait till Hell freezes over to get an answer from you. Or from that complete fraud Doctor Artist Leader the Fund of Compassion or that other Rational Atheist K. Veeramani.

By the way, The Fund of Compassion has called his alliance with the All-India Muslim League and the Congress (led by that devout Roman Catholic Sonia Gandhi aka Antonia Mano) the Democratic Secular Alliance. I guess the only thing secular about that is there are supporters of Hinduism in that alliance.
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#27 Posted by harimau on March 6, 2004 7:00:57 pm
Ref Walking Brain-Dead Maasanamuthu #21

[Hey rsridhar,
Did you run away?]

I notice -- as also all the Chowkies -- that you ran away from answering these other simple questions:

How much dowry did you get? How much of it was extra for that professional education you stole from deserving candidates? Exactly what was your rank in the qualifying exams for the professional education? What was your rank when you graduated with your degree? How many subjects did you fail in and had to re-take the exam/pay the examiner to get a passing grade so that you could get your degree?

Oh yes, when are you going to post the English translation of that song ``Ottakattha kattikko``?
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#26 Posted by harimau on March 6, 2004 7:00:57 pm
Ref Walking Brain-Dead Sudalaikkannu #21

[Hey rsridhar,
Did you run away?]

Here are some more questions that you can choose NOT to run away from:

When I went to the Mudakkani Amman temple in Chennai, I saw a sign saying that prayers would be offered by the priests only in Tamil. I also noticed that all the priests were non-Brahmins.

Can you explain how this freeing of this specific temple from the Brahmin stranglehold (over employment as priests and use of Sanskrit as the language of worship) as mandated by the administration of Doctor Artist Leader the Fund of Compassion has advanced the cause of Rational Atheism? Is exploitation of the religious feelings of the masses by non-Brahmins a superior alternative to exploitation by Brahmin priests?
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#25 Posted by harimau on March 6, 2004 7:00:57 pm
Ref ballukhan #22

[#14 by soysauce on March 2, 2004 4:39pm PT
On one of the channels I recently saw Sai Baba throwing up a golden egg from his mouth- man it was real big- and the sight was real amazing- how does he do it?? Is it a miracle or a trick like David Blain`s?]

Greater entertainment is to be had when you watch Inji-kari-Kuzhambu aka Soysauce swallow the eggs that Doctor Artist Leader the Fund of Compassion pulls out of his arse.
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#24 Posted by harimau on March 6, 2004 7:00:57 pm
Ref plats8 #20

[``Even discounting the miracles that Sai Baba is doing``....thank you for the
early morning humour.]

Sai Baba is spending Rs. 2.5 billion (Rs. 250 crores or US$ 55 million) of the funds he has raised to dig irrigation canals and bring water to the parched lands of Telengana.

If you ask the local people, I think they would say that this is a greater miracle than anything the thieving politicians have produced.

PS. I don`t believe in the Sai Baba... but I am willing to set the record straight regarding his public service.
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#23 Posted by plats8 on March 5, 2004 6:43:24 pm
Ballukhan #22,

That is just the egg-god (I`m sure there is one in Hinduism) speaking through
his prophet.
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#22 Posted by ballukhan on March 5, 2004 5:16:00 pm
#14 by soysauce on March 2, 2004 4:39pm PT
On one of the channels I recently saw Sai Baba throwing up a golden egg from his mouth- man it was real big- and the sight was real amazing- how does he do it?? Is it a miracle or a trick like David Blain`s?
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#21 Posted by soysauce on March 4, 2004 2:02:43 pm
Hey rsridhar,
Did you run away? I see why you believe in miracles. It indeed is a miracle that an imbecile like you has made it this far..
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#20 Posted by plats8 on March 3, 2004 1:10:15 pm
rsridhar #18,

``I do not care less if you become a diehard fan of Laloo Yadav (you should
consider becoming one since both are at the same intellectual level)``

``I do not like you because you assume an air of an intellectual when you
are not one....``

Pot/kettle anyone ?

``Even discounting the miracles that Sai Baba is doing``....thank you for the
early morning humour.
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#19 Posted by soysauce on March 3, 2004 1:10:14 pm
#18
I think you should be telling your shrink all this instead of me.
Nonetheless, you have made some statements about me as though you know me personally. Would you be honest enough to tell this board where you came up with that? Where did you get the info that I am DMK sympathizer? How could you possibly know what my background is w.r.to caste & creed? From google? Did you ask saibaba?
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    #34 harimau
    #33 soysauce
    #32 plats8
    #31 rsridhar
    #30 rsridhar
    #29 harimau
    #28 harimau
    #27 harimau
    #26 harimau
    #25 harimau
    #24 harimau
    #23 plats8
    #22 ballukhan
    #21 soysauce
    #20 plats8
    #19 soysauce
    #18 rsridhar
    #17 soundmeister
    #16 harimau
    #15 soysauce
    #14 jang
    #13 M.B.Z.Isphahani
    #12 baaghiraja
    #11 arjun_m
    #10 jang
    #9 harimau
    #8 nazarhayatkhan
    #7 sadna
    #6 sadna
    #5 harimau
    #4 harimau
    #3 jang
    #2 pmishra2
    #1 Saminasha

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