THE SAINTS

I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did.
So said Saint George Bush the son.

i don't eat saints, they don't taste good even with pickle and chutney. yuk !
i hate saints.

So, God told St.Bush to invade Iraq.

He could be lying like he's been lying on various other issues.
What if he is telling the truth ?
That he did receive the Divine Revelation from God
He can't be lying all the time, he lied because the people behind him made him tell all those lies.
poor chap
No one told him to shut up, they just let him make a fool of himself. Thats what they wanted.
What they didn't tell him was that his Divine Revelation is actually a phenomenon called TLE
Temporal lobe epilepsy.
and
and
and
if he was telling the truth, you had a president for eight long years who was not mentally very sound.

Now the mindologists, brainologists, headologists and nuttologists are digging up all the Divine Revelations people recieved so far in history. Few books have been written on the subject. Please check.

People were indeed telling the truth about those Revelations.
None was lying about them.
It was a true experience, Feeling of Aura, blinding flash, some get incence smells too. Brain plays such tricks on us. There are thousands of different kinds of epilepsy, seizures, very few reported and studied. scientists are doing it now.
Neurotheology it is called. New subject.

For me the most interesting case is St.Teresa of Avila.(1515-1582) please see Bernini's masterpiece Ecstasy of St.Teresa.

act one scene one
She claims she was having an affair with God,

act one scene two
she claims God was having an affair with her..,
You will not find these exact words.
means the same.

act four scene four
tragic end
after two years God dumps her.
in other words she stopped having seizures
Same thing, a case of Temporal lobe epilepsy

Now Turlington would be furious, how could God ignore me and have an affair with some one else ??


Soon we'll be having elections in India.
Except for the Indians, no one is really interested.
Where as, entire world is focussed on the result of Elections in the US for obvious reasons.
All are affected.
i am one of them.
The US government is not known to mind its own business like the other countries do.
As an outsider What do i expect ?
i would rather have a US president who is a liar or a crook or a casanova, but not a saint who receives Divine Revelations directly from God every night.
oh DEEAH ! thats scary.

BURST OF JOY

i needed her so badly
i am happy, i made her smile.
She gave me her best. she made me smile.
We need each other so much and such moments are so precious that we wish they last for ever.
We can't be happy alone, unless we share our joy.
byeee sweeet, she was on a boat on the sacred river Ganges.

I AM FAMOUS

i am one of them
i mean i am there in the crowd
no, no i am not in the pikcha
bikkus i am taking the pikcha
how can i be in the pikcha when i am taking the pikcha ?
That is not all of dem, its just part of the crowd
massive it was, MASSIVE
wow!!

WHAT is he trying to do ? climbing on his friend's head ?

you can see him here, the blue shirt.

oh i forgot to tell you.
This is a festival
i can see that ! you say, you are smiling , such a massive crowd gathered, so many elephants too, decorated. This has to be a festival.
what this is all about ?
i don't know
honestly
i don't know whats going on
believe me.
This always happens to me. i am there in a crowd and i don't even know what is happening.
This festival is called Thrissur Pooram. Mid April every year.
Please google 'Thrissur Pooram' and check, or my readers from Kerala will tell you in comments.
You don't know how lazy i can get. Any way i am not talking about the festival, just pictures.
Pooram is the festival, Thrissur is name of a town in Kerala, South India. Clean beautiful town, Old name Trichur.















And what do we have here ?
Hellew !

Such a nice chap, presenting this festival to the world....... live
the thing on the mic says Jai Hind TV,
never heard of it.

Nice boy isn't he ? doing a goood job
very sweet, so sweet that i'd like to eat him
not raw
eating them raw is not civilised

TV anchor people taste better deep fried with chili garlic sause

Any way, here is a nice boy, presenting this festival live on his TV to the world
doing a good job, speaking in chaste, fluent poetic Malayalam,
things are going fine for him
and suddenly
and suddenly
out of nowhere
a dreadful looking hairy gorilla pops right up his face and starts clicking his pictures.

WHAT ???

Just imagine the poor chap's shock

eyes go wide, his jaw dropped.........he forgot his lines
eee, aah ! intha, yantha, errrr, he dropped his mic in utter frustration

and i say Hello and show all of my two and a half teeth and smile
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
And this chap, even in a state of shock till the tip of his hair, still manages to smile
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and says Hi

How nice ! How sweet ! ......... i decided not to eat him
He was not angry. He was looking over my shoulder.

hmmm... what ?
i turned my coconut and saw a couple of guys frantically waving their arms

owee ? are they drowning in the air ?
They were the camera crew
still waving their arms in frenzy,
drowning ?? trying to speak but they can't.
its like in your dream you want to shout and the voice doesn't come out
i turned my coconut back to our friend

what ?

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
i showed my stupid teeth again

poor chap was sort of confused.
he touched his head with his finger and pointed towards my coconut.
oh
aaaah !
Your head ? My head ??
you mean my head ?

What my head ?
i turned my coconut back and forth, to the camera crew and our friend
am i ?
am i blocking your camera ?
like a damned fool i am still standing there

is my head blocking your camera ?

eee ahh..... athey ! (yes in Malayalam) very hesitant, confused and very polite.
oh, oh i am sorrry, oh ! oh ! i am sorrrry

then i realised the back of my coconut was splashed to the viewers
oh i am famous ? i should expect some fan mail then.

pleased with my performance, i showed my teeth to the camera.
i said byee
and the poor chap smiles and says byee
oh how sweet !
They didn't bash me up for interrupting their show.
i deserved some good hammering.
He was so polite, the entire crew was so exceedingly polite

oh dear ! what's wrong with me ?
i didn't eat him, here is the proof. Do you see him there ?
please see the arrow
there he is !
He was back on his job, after a bit of shock treatment




















So i had to go and sit somewhere and think
why am i so dumb ?
When God was giving away intelligence and wisdom to humans, i was sitting in some tea shop in pouring rain, some remote part of Kerala, sitting on the road side, soaked to the bone, sipping kattan kaapee (black coffee)
oh how i love it, kattan chaaya too (black tea) some times.
i missed the boat.
i saw happy smart people on the wisdom boat.
What would i do with intelligence and wisdom anyway ??
one more kattan kaapee please !











i sat here with these people, oh here is the chap packing masala peanuts for me. i just sat on the road side munching masala peanuts and had a kattan kaapee, no hurry, i had all the time in the world. The elephants will not fly away. They have no wings.
i did not see any wings. How can they fly away ?
Had kattan kaapee in peace.

She is happy, safe place for tourists, believe me, half the crowd is cops and TV crew. Lots of side attractions, music, food, a variety of things on display

This was magical, The drums are called Chenda, please correct me.

i could see him smiling,

performing for me ?

i bowed in appreciation. Thank you i said after clicking the picture.

But i was disturbed by scenes i didn't want to see.

it was magical for me, perhaps not for the elephants, who are hundred times more sensitive than humans.

Quite disturbing
Remove the elephants, the glamour is gone, there is no festival. Chains are for safety, not good, but subjecting them to deafeaning noise, is torture. This has to stop. There is evolution in other religious practices. Most of the gory practices are fast disappearing, for instance, in this Theyyam puja picture this is supposed to be real blood, now coloured water is splashed on the diety. Hope parading of elephants with deafeaning noise would disappear soon.

Oh ! he is selling the posters of this festival. i left a bit early, i didn't wait for the fireworks, even worse torture for the elephants. had a train to catch.

TUNGUSKA

30th June is the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska event
what is the right word ? Anniversary ?
there can't be an anniversary of a disaster.
i very much doubt if the news papers or the TV will remember the event, even if they do, they would ignore it. Because the event speaks of a God who doesn't seem to be in control of his creations.

Tunguska is in central Siberia, the people are TUNGUS ??Tunguskans ??, not sure please check.

In the early morning hours of 30th June 1908, a ball of fire entered the earth's atmosphere. Seconds later, there was an explosion of unimaginable magnitude followed by a heat shock wave which swept the villagers off their feet. No deaths. None reported. The explosion happened miles and miles away from the villages in a fur forest of central Siberia. 2000 sq kilometers of fur forest was burnt. The entire forest was leveled.
There was no crater.
The shock wave was felt all over Europe.

What happened ?
No one knows for Sure.
There are only theories.
Most plausible one is that a fragment of comet hit the earth at 70, 000 miles speed.
No crater, i repeat. And no trace of any radio active material.
Such accidents keep occuring every second in our universe, multiverse.
We have more than one universe.

The funniest thing is.
No one went to the crash site for 20 years. No one cared.
Russia was ruled by the Czars in 1908 who never cared for the poor and Tunguska is so far and so remote in a very hostile Siberia, the Tunguskans never existed for the rest of the world.
Please check the details on the net. i am talking about something else here.

We have planets, we have stars and we have galaxies, not one or two but trillions and trillions of galaxies like ours. In between the space, there are rocks floating, metal, dust, fragments of comets, pieces of ice, pieces, yes pieces the size of Nepal or Switzerland. The one that hit Tunguskan forst was tiny,
just the size of a football field.
These fragments keep hitting planets every second.

Would you smile if i say some fragments of icy comets are diamonds ?
Yes they are.

i hear God's voice
Hey rauf you are greedy, do want a diamond ?
yes God, Yes God

a burning ball of diamond as big as state of Texas falls on my house at 70, 000 miles speed
a gift from God
i can be very rich selling that diamond.
How lucky!

'oh Shit ! its a diamond'
rauf said that a minute ago
where is rauf ?
UNDER THE DIAMOND
i'll be quoted in famous last words on the net.
Luckiest man on earth i'll be.
rauf is buried under a diamond ?
WHAT LUCK !

Scientists who later investigated Tunguska found diamonds in the forest leveled by the explosion.
God created everything ?
Our 4.7 billion years old planet Earth is just a tiny spec of dust in trillions and trillions of galaxies.
Chances of another hit are remote. But the scientists say this happens once every hundred years.
Is God who created everything in control of his creations ?
Must be a very irresponsible God. A mischievous child.

THE NET

WELCOME 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR !
When this sign greets you in the month of June,
you know you are working with very lazy people. This is not shocking when you are waiting at our local Telephone office.
This is pretty normal.
i am fine with lazy people as i am very lazy myself
i am fine with slobs as i am a big slob myself.

Hi my dear friends
i was in a no man's land for a couple of months with no telephone and internet, that is not the only reason for my long absence, its a long story, i'll tell you later

i wanted internet connection with a new telephone line.
i mean the net comes with a telephone line.
The telephone was promised in a couple of days but it came ten days later.
When do i get the internet ?
it will take another ten days
why
your password and log in name has to come from our head office in Bangalore
fine.
it took 15 days but it came.
what ?
what what ?
what is my password ?
password
yes password
what ?
my password
yes, password
password ?
what ?
password
WHAT IS MY PASSWORD ?
password
i don't believe this ! my password is password ?
and it took you 15 days to set my password and it came from Bangalore after rattling a few super brains ? WOW !
password, you are not joking ?
No sir !
you are joking are not joking ?
yes sir
you mean you are joking ?
no sir
dear o dear !
so my password is PASSWORD
yes sir
Thank you so much for your deep thoughts

The net came at a wrong time when i was breathing dust sitting on a lot of debris,
had to pack my putter immediately as i had just managed to get the labour to work on my new room.
One look at me and they know that this guy has no money.
They don't show up
They are interested only in big work, big money
had to look for people who had no work
found an old carpenter who was willing to work on my weird designs
So it took time, the work is still going on at snail's pace.
it will take another week for me to settle down at my new place.

I sincerely thank all my blog friends who kept enquiring about my welfare, i would reply to all of you individually. i had no access to net for more than 2 months
Thank you so much my friends, i am overwhelmed
i am fine healthwise, and hope you all are doing fine and enjoying the summer.
Here i am finding ways to love the heat
you have to
heat or cold
Otherwise we ruin our day by complaining about the heat cold rain or no rain
All my love, i'll be back soon with a new post.