Christianity Today expressed concerns with the film showing the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the towering Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio being destroyed, while not portraying the destruction of landmarks associated with non-Christian religions. (From Wikipedia)

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/movies/reviews/2009/2012.html

Quote from the above link: On the other hand, if Emmerich is going to specifically show the Vatican leadership going down with St. Peter’s, I want to see Catholic (and/or Orthodox) bishops among the survivors—somewhere on the planet. The Church must continue, and while a Protestant with a Bible may be good to carry things on, Catholics need the succession of bishops. 2012 doesn’t say that there aren’t bishops among the survivors, but if Emmerich can kill ‘em onscreen, he could have let some live onscreen.

*SIGH*

It’s just a film.

The one in the red circle… he was one of the 4 MLAs suspended for manhandling Abu Azim Azmi for taking oath in hindi and not marathi.

Politicians or Hooligans?

Looks more like a goonda from a tamil film. Just look at the amount of jewellery he is wearing! Lol! And to top it, I am told he is from Uttar Pradesh, not a marathi ‘manoo’!

What did Indians of the past discover? Nothing! Nothing!

Anyone who is concerned about our lives in this world should take a look at the video here. It is about 20mins long.

It’s just a coincidence that I just touched upon this topic in the very previous post.

Why do we have to struggle so much to get our basic needs? People struggle everyday for years, claiming that they do so for the welfare of their children. In that pursuit, we take almost everything for granted, right from availability of grains and water to the fact that we will live on until a certain age. The moment something goes wrong, the express of life comes to a jolting halt.

We all work for a living… all the time, at offices, workshops, on the move, at night. We are connected to the web of information even when flying or on a remote island.Yet we don’t have time to sit down with our near and dear, why, even one’s own children when they need us most. Both parents are away at work when this poor child is kept silent watching pokemon or Ninja turtles on TV. And when the teachers complain that the kid had beaten up another or broken stuff throwing them around, the parents’ ire is shown on the kids!

Corporations spring up like weeds overnight and claim to provide ‘better products’!! Cut throat competition is seen as a virtue. Getting to the top spot in the market, by hook or crook, is considered an ideal worth anything in this world, even if it costs one’s health, family or even life. Greed knows no end, yet in the name of development only greed is getting developed. Why do we need 40 different brands of electric toothbrush or mattress? How does it matter whether you travel in a Benz or an Alto, when in the end all you want is to reach your office?  We see ‘we love our customers’ in supermarkets…. but NO!!, they love our credit cards! End of the quarter… oh, this deal needs to be done… revenue targets, beat the sales figures.. consumerism… consumerism… consumerism. This is consuming this world slowly and surely.

Why do we have to be like a machine, devoid of basic feelings of companionship to our fellow living entities? Why can’t we lead simpler lives? When did life become so complex that we get need counseling on the art of living? When did we become so hard at heart that we don’t stop to help an injured man or animal on the road? When did we become so short sighted that we would stand on the branch of a tree yet start hacking at the root?

Where is the purpose to this life? What are we doing here? How did it come to this?

Found this in one of the comments on a blog.

“Now, there are many animals and plants suffering here for our research. Do I invoke christianity? No, sometimes for the greater good you may do researcher on cancer on rats or brain monitoring of monkeys.”

My first reaction was simply ‘wtf’. I think he meant for ‘greater money’, perhaps. Why don’t these people test stuff like these on themselves?

Who gives them the bloody liberty to harm another living being and take everything on this good earth for granted?

Wake up, you morons!! You fools are squabbling over which portfolios to give to which party, when other countries playing ‘inky, pinky, ponky’ on our country’s lands for choosing which one to take.

http://maps.google.com/maps?complete=1&hl=en&source=hp&q=India+Map&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=India&ei=2GrHSq-aB8uAkQW2u5ncBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1

Do you see Kashmir or Arunachal Pradesh in India? This map is found in some place in China.

India Redrawn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8337182.stm

That’s a 101kg ball of karma right there!

*sigh*… the things that people do for achieving their 1 page of fame.

Just saw the movie “Mozhi” again today. As usual, this is one of the very few tamil movies that I have sat down watched without regret. I translated the song “Kaatrin mozhi…” from this movie a long while ago… felt like reposting it.

Is the wind’s language sound or music?
Is the flower’s language color or scent?
Is the ocean’s language waves or froth?
Are the eyes or lips the language of love?

If nature’s languages can be understood,
Human languages are not needed!
If the heart’s languages can be understood,
Humans need no language!

When the wind blows, there are no directions!
When love speaks, there are no languages!
Silence cannot be understood like spoken words!
Words spoken by Eyes, even God doesn’t know!
For the blowing wind, a shape cannot be painted!
The languages of love do not fit in cage of sounds!

The speech of skies emerges as droplets!
The speech of rainbow emerges as colors!
When truth loses its voice, tears become the language!
When femininity loses its voice, shyness becomes the language!
The time when sound sleeps, stars become a language!
In a heart where desire sleeps, every movement becomes a language!

http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/g08htHindusAtFatima_Vennari.html

This Vennari guy beats Pat Robertson! May God take pity on both of them.

I am left speechless.

Edit 1: I have several friends who are christian (some of them are ‘hardcore’).

Edit 2: Having faced several attempts to be preached at by christian missionaries during my 3+ years of stay in USA, I guess I can say that I know quite a bit on how they work in to your minds. Nothing wrong in preaching your faith… but the method’s that some of these ‘fundamentalist missionaries’ use are utterly disgusting. On the other hand, I have also had some pretty amusing experiences with them. Here’s one!