Hi Rajib:
You just validated my point :-).
c-da
At 4:54 PM -0700 9/10/06, Rajib Das wrote:
>C-da,
>
>The connection really does not exist. This Earthquake
>guy does not explain things based on "Hindu
>Knowledge".
>
>All this shows is your own irrationality in the
>context of anything Hindu. It seems you carry more
>anti-Hindu baggage than this quack carries Hindu
>baggage.
>
>Rajib
>
>> > *** Well,it was because of a long running pattern
>> of
>> > such voodoo
>> > 'science', that have been attributed to
>> > Hindu-knowledge or
>> > scriptures, by really myths; which otherwise able,
>> > REAL scientists
>> > and intellectuals have never been able to
>> repudiate
>> > or debunk and
>> > stand up to, due to the Hindu baggage they carry.
>> >
>> > It smacks of the same kind of irrational
>> > voodoo-science that
>> > Hindu-scientists and intellectuals try to promote,
>> > as in that
>> > mercury-valve theory of keeping Xiboxahor pukhuri
>> > water from leaking
>> > out, that one of our very own topnotch, IIT
>> engineer
>> > presented here
>> > in Assam Net :-).
>> >
>> > c-da
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 7:15 PM -0500 9/9/06, Alpana B. Sarangapani
>> > wrote:
>> > >C'da:
>> > >
>> > > >*** I don't know what you refer to, but if it
>> > was because his
>> > >home-made telescope was not >powerful enough; and
>> > we try to equate
>> > >that failure to voodoo-science of the Hindu-Phd
>> Sri
>> > N. >Venky in
>> > >this 21st century, who do you think will look bad
>> > Alpana :-)?
>> > >
>> > >My point is, call him naive, ignorant, or
>> whatever!
>> > but why go after
>> > >the whole race even when there is not much
>> ground?
>> > :) :)
>> > >
>> > >I guess he goofed but had all the good intention
>> > and didn't want
>> > >another catastrophe like the Tsunami of 2004 to
>> > happen without
>> > >a warning.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > >To: "Alpana B. Sarangapani"
>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, assam@assamnet.org
>> > >Subject: RE: [Assam] More on Hindu Science
>> > >Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:45:20 -0500
>> > >
>> > >blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li
>> > {padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;}
>> > >O'Alpana:
>> > >
>> > > >xabodhanor maar naai
>> > >
>> > >Ekebele thik kotha kola deiba :-). Pise' kwne'
>> > kihor babe' xaabodhan
>> > >korise' xeitw olop bhabi saabo laage nohoy, ne ki
>> > kwa?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >Imagine the same Hindu Astro-Physicist PhD
>> warning
>> > about doomsday
>> > >for the world
>> > >based on his Hindu-science calculations. And
>> > imagine India going
>> > >into a panic and shutting things down for the
>> > moment, if not
>> > >embarking on a binge of living it up the last few
>> > moments before
>> > >'moha-proloy'. What would have ensued you think?
>> > >
>> > >Personally I was NOT a bit surprised by the
>> govt's
>> > abject
>> > >ineptitude. After all our montris and reps.,
>> > educated in 21st
>> > >century desi institutions of learning are guided
>> by
>> > astrologers on
>> > >most important matters of state. And that
>> includes,
>> > I have it from
>> > >very reliable sources, Sonia-mata, not to mention
>> > the lesser
>> > >luminaries.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > >Galileo also misread Saturn. Was he a hindu?
>> > >
>> > >*** I don't know what you refer to, but if it was
>> > because his
>> > >home-made telescope was not powerful enough; and
>> we
>> > try to equate
>> > >that failure to voodoo-science of the Hindu-Phd
>> Sri
>> > N. Venky in this
>> > >21st century, who do you think will look bad
>> Alpana
>> > :-)?
>> > >
>> > >c-da
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >At 9:19 AM -0500 9/9/06, Alpana B. Sarangapani
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >Hi C'da: This was really scary. Thank God (if I
>> may
>> > say so here :))
>> > >that it did not happen.
>> > >
>> > >As it says here, the news should not have gone to
>> > the public but to
>> > >the scientific community but precautionary
>> methods
> > > were to be taken
>> > >by the government, which they did, I suppose.
>> > >
>> > >Don't we also say - xabodhanor maar naai?
>> > >
>> > >Galileo also misread Saturn. Was he a hindu?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > >To: assam@assamnet.org
>> > >Subject: [Assam] More on Hindu Science
>> > >Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 08:55:30 -0500
>> > >> >Geologist apologises, but warning stands
>> > >>
>> > >>*** GEOLOGIST!
>> > >>
>> > >> >a PhD in astro-geo physics,
>> > >>
>> > >>*** Ph D? ASTRO_GEOPHYSICS?
>> > >>
>> > >>Fools all!!
>> > >>
>> > >>cm
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>Geologist apologises, but warning stands
>> > >>
>> > >> GUWAHATI, Sept 8 - A Chennai-based geologist,
>> > whose "prediction"
>> > >>that an earthquake will hit Asom this morning
>> > triggered panic here,
>> > >>apologised to the people of the State but said
>> the
>> > warning still
>> > >>stands for next three days, reports PTI. On
>> being
>>
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>
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