Thanks Sri G K. Q 2 reminded me of this joke, a fairly old one.
A very rich merchant was on a voyage by sea when a powerful hurricane tossed the ship around. The captain seemed helpless and asked people to pray. This merchant promised God that if he were to survive he will sell his palatial bungalow and donate the entire sale proceeds to charity. They survived and reached ashore and this fellow was in two minds, thinking whether he committed a mistake by promising too much too soon but finally settled on an idea which he thought Will enable him to keep his promise And also Not give too much away. He advertised that he will sell his cat for 5 million dollars BUT Will give as a bonus his bungalow for 1000 dollars. Since the bungalow was worth that much he sold both, Kept 5 million dollars with himself And as promised donated 1000 dollars. There are various but devious ways to circumvent anything. N Sekar Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=NativePlacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_EmailSignatureGrowth_YahooMail:Search,Organize,Conquer&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000945&af_sub5=OrganizeConquer__Static_> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM, Narayanaswamy Sekar <[email protected]> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: *'gopala krishnan' via Thatha_Patty* <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 9:31 PM Subject: CULTURAL QA 04-2024-14 To: Patty Thatha <[email protected]>, Kerala Iyer < [email protected]>, Iyer <[email protected]> *CULTURAL QA 04-2024-14* *All the BELOW QA are from Quora digest to me on 14-04-2024.* * Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers * *.Compiled* *and posted by R. Gopala krishnan, on 14-04-2024* *Q1 What happened to Ekalvya after he cut off his thumb in Guru Dakshina?* *A1 Rama G, Lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Updated Thu* *This is what I heard from my teachers when I was in high school.* *Ekalvya is a Nishada king. Tribal rules are different. Not follow dharmas of other societies. Strength is their asset. They have their own rules.* *Drona want someone who is best in strength, follower of dharma, who has Vichakshna as his student and saviour of Hasthina.* *That is the reason he didn't find even his own child Aswathama as suitable to learn the best archery from him. Which father keeps away their own children for others sake?* *Eligibility doesn't mean only expertice. It needs patience, calm nature, Dharma vichakshna.* *Aswathama, Ekalvya these people are very short tempered.* *Ekalavya punishes a dog for barking and disturbing him when he was practicing. He is right according to his tribal rules. Not for Hasthina.* *Purpose of teaching should be seen as an issue between right and wrong. Guru works for the side of right. Love and mercy are more powerful than hatred and cruelty.* *He stopped Ekalvya not killed him. He can do that also if he want to misuse his position. A person with a missing limb can not become king of Hasthina pura.Just like Dhritarashtra . So he ensured that.* *Even after all this, he blesses Ekalavya with best skills, so he practices without thumb and excels. I heard till date those skills are practiced in archery. Not using Thumb. I am not an expert in archery. So, this is just what I read.* *Finally as expected Ekalavya makes friends with Jarasandha and killed by Lord Krishna.* *Arjun thinks twice even before Kurukshetra war. Doesn't want to fight. Then by Krishna’s ‘Gitopadesam’ he fights war. Ekalavya’s mindset, manners are different.* *Being a Brahman guru, Drona did ‘Himsa’ by asking ekalavya his thumb as Guru dakshina. May be for good reasons. His loyalty towards Hasthina pura kingdom. He is Raja guru. Still, has to face consequences of his karma.* *So, died in war by a lie.* * “Aswathama hathaha kunjaraha” said by Dharmaraya.* *Bharatham is full of this kind of rules, principles, dharma, adharma, conflicts between them, doubts, clarification, you can't measure them with present day scales.* *Those characters are not black and white, they have different shades also.* *People obviously pick up points according to their taste, their view point. People see whatever they like to see, hear whatever they like to hear.* *I take ekalavya as my idol for his lakshya sadhana. Will power. Even Guru is not ready to teach him, he learnt on his own how to excel in his chosen field.* *Humans take birth for some reasons, die again for some reasons.* *Those reasons may appear logical to some . Illogical to some.* *Picking up good things from any epics help us. Especially from those which happened thousands of years back instead of dissecting and post mortem.* *If you have plenty of time to waste or your goal is to prove who is wrong or right, all the best.* *Q2 What's the funniest joke you've heard recently?* *A2 Robert Farnsworth,Apr 4* *“Hey mom! Can I buy a car? There is this advertisement in the paper for a new Porsche, only $25.00!”* * “Oh, I am sure it is a misprint,” said mom, “no one would put that kind of price on a car like that.”* * “Can we go and see?” said the boy.* *So they went to the address.* *Sure enough, there was a brand new Porsche, in excellent condition, with only a few hundred miles on it.* *A woman saw them looking at and came out.* *The boy said “It is a beautiful car. It was advertised at $25.00. How much is it really??”* * “It’s $25; unless that is too much for you, I’ll lower the price.”* *The boy forked over the $25 and they signed the papers.* *Before they left with the car the boy’s mother said “I just have to ask. Why are you selling this valuable auto for only $25?”* * “Well,” said the lady, “My husband left the other day and ran away with his secretary. He wired me from Hawaii saying ‘Sell my car, send me the money.’ So that is what I am doing.”* *Q3 Do you know any funny jokes involving animals?* *A3 Marek Čtrnáct,10mo* *The animals in the forest decide to build a public toilet in order to have a cleaner forest.* *For a week or so, everything is fine. But then, one day, a hole appears in the door.* *The wolf, whose cousin is a police dog, takes the role of the investigator.* * “Does anyone know what happened here?” he asks.* * “Yes, I know something,”says the rabbit. “You see, the bear went to use the toilet, but there was no toilet paper. I was just outside, so the bear grabbed me, wiped his butt with me, and threw me out so hard that I flew through the door.”* *“The bear, yes…” says the wolf. The bear is big, strong, and cranky, and the wolf has no desire to tangle with him. “Fine,” he says, “we’ll just repair the door. I don’t think this will repeat.”* *Another week passes, and this time, the door is lying on the ground. So the wolf investigates again.* * “Does anyone know what happened here?” he asks.* * “Yes, I know something,” says the fox. “The bear was on the toilet, and there was no toilet paper, so he grabbed me, wiped his butt with me, and throw me against the door with such force that the door hinges broke.* *All the animals take a while to think about it. Such brutality! Such strength! No, they don’t want to tangle with the bear. So they, again, repair the door and say nothing.* *And then, a week after that, they see that the whole building is completely demolished. The walls are reduced to rubble. The toilet itself is broken into shards.* * “OK,” says the wolf, “this is too much. Even if it is the bear again, we can’t let this slide, but, just to keep the protocol… does anyone know what happened here?”* * “Yes, I know something,” says the hedgehog…* *Q4 Do all trees produce oxygen for humans to breathe, even when they do not have leaves? If so, what percentage of oxygen comes from trees?* *A4 Ken Saladin,Former professor of histology (microscopic anatomy)Updated Apr 8* *I can’t tell you specific numbers, but I know (if my readings are correct) that oceanic phytoplankton produces more of the world’s oxygen than any other source, and on land, grasslands produce more than forests. * *Even urban lawns produce a significant amount of oxygen in growing season**, but they have a net oxygen consumption by decay in the nongrowing part of the year. A 5,000 sq.ft. lawn (a little over 0.1 acre) produces enough oxygen to meet the needs of nerly 35 people per day, whereas the same area of forest produces enough for 8 to 18 people.[1]* *With few exceptions, trees do not produce oxygen when they have no leaves**. One exception is the palo verde tree of the American Southwest, which has chlorophyll throughout (hence its green branches) and photosynthesizes everywhere, with or without leaves.* *Palo verde* *It must be remembered that even photosynthetic plants don’t just produce oxygen, they also consume it**. In the winter, leafless deciduous trees only consume it, and some forests consume about as much oxygen as they produce because of the decay of vegetation and other matter of the forest floor. A tropical rainforest is not a net producer of oxygen.* *Q5 Why is it a bad idea to run from a bear?* *A5 Mats Andersson, Businessman at Language Industry (1991–present)Apr 5* *Bears don’t classify much. They divide the world into a few simple categories. It has worked for them for millions of years. Those categories are:* * Things to mate with. Things to eat. Things that might be a threat. Rocks.* *Many animals will have category 3 labelled “Things to run away from”, but that’s not what bears do. They walk up to it and whack it; problem solved.* *When you chance upon a bear, it will immediately discard option 1. You are provisionally in class 4, but it’s watching for evidence to the contrary.* *Bears don’t normally eat humans**. We’re far too big to be bear prey. But if we run away, we might suddenly trigger pattern recognition for option 2. Walking towards it is, of course, worse, because we get upgraded to option 3 pretty quickly, the bear will solve the problem, and then we’ll be investigated for whether our remains maybe classify as option 2.* *What you want to do is to display behaviour that makes it think you have filed it under option 4**. That’s when you keep looking at it, but slowly and confidently walk away. Since you’re not afraid, you can’t be food; since you’re not advancing towards it, you can’t be a threat.* *Mind you, it’s not certain that you will suddenly be classified as food. But you really don’t want to take chances with a bear.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1995884788.5489386.1713110478607%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1995884788.5489386.1713110478607%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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