“Don’t leave the church because of the people who hurt you. Nobody is perfect, only God”

I’ll explain why this comment is not only not helpful at all, but also very harmful.

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The comment assumes we can’t tell the difference between people and toxic theology, it assumes our issues are with a few people who are outliers and misrepresented God, and we just seem to think that’s the totality of divinity. Which makes us appear unintelligent and petty.

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But, that’s not the case at all. I didn’t leave because a few people hurt me in the name of God, in fact I stayed long enough to get hurt again, and again, and again, and again. Because it’s not a few bad apples hurting people in the name of God what we are dealing with.

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Instead we are talking about systemic abuse due to toxic theology that is taught as righteousness.

Go to any white evangelical church today and conduct all the tests you must to ensure only those who are “good Christians,” remain. I guarantee you people will be harmed there.
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Not because people just hurt people, not because Christians have good intentions but sometimes make mistakes; instead because the harm is caused due to indoctrination into toxic theology and a belief that their social and theological framework is not only good,

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@TalhaAhsanEsq It's a very good question, and a complicated one. For starters, the Islamic manuscript tradition is vast both in terms of timespan and geography. As Dr. Shamsy points out in his latest book, the Arabic manuscript tradition is the most vast of any language in the world.

Why are some things given more prioritisation for publication than others? Why are some aspects of the tradition more emphasised than others. There's no single cause behind it.

And there is not necessarily always a sinister motive behind the suppression of some things, but sometimes there is...

It is true that the Hanbalis and Ash'aris had a very contentious and at times acrimonious relationship for much of their history. In later centuries, a sort of truce was reached. Al-Zabidi has said similar in his sharh of Ihya about the identification of 3 groups as Ahl al-Sunna

It seems that these truce efforts also spawned a number of works seeking to mediate the Hanbali-Ash'ari dispute over the nature of Divine Speech, the most contentious of issues between the two camps. A couple of these have been recently published.

Let me talk about something
I consider myself qualified to discuss: a film director, Oliver Stone. OS is a great political director & a very clever man, one of the best in the industry. My view is that he did not simply take the Russian vx because he didn't want to wait for US 1

He's a very clever man, he made a judgement for his own life, for his family, & he chose the Russian vx instead of any of the Western ones, because he wanted the vx & considers Sputnik V the safest one.

I can see the logic:
1 No accountability for any of the Western vx, nobody can sue for any damage etc.
2 Those who made Sputnik V know they are always personally accountable to Vladimir Putin
3 S5 is based on a pre-existing vx with minimal changes so safety tried for many years

So if the Russians could find a safe way to adapt a tried & tested technology & only alter what is required, using adenovirus vectors, a technology in use for 50 years, experimented on for vx since the 1980s, why were Western Big Pharma so keen on something completely new: mRNA?

That is the question that Oliver Stone is indirectly asking us all to look into & answer: why were Western Big Pharma all at once suddenly so keen on using mRNA when there were much safer & tested directions available (adenovirus vectors), what is it that Western Big Pharma want?

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If your friend is telling you about an accomplishment, do not try to one-up them by sharing an accomplishment of your own.

Tame your ego.

Sit back and actively listen.

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#Thread
Those who consider Indira Gandhi as Iron Lady, read this carefully.

You must not have forgotten the name of Wing Commander Abhinandan. Perhaps his _'handle bar' mustache will also be remembered. But below I have written the names of..

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some other brave pilots of this Indian Air Force. Far from seeing their pictures, there will be only one of us who must have heard these names.But their relationship is much deeper than Abhinandan.

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Here are the names :

Wing Commander - Harsaran Singh Dandos

Squadron Leader - Mohinder Kumar Jain

Squadron Leader - J M Mistry

Squadron Leader - JD Kumar

Squadron Leader - Dev Prasad Chatterjee

Flight Lieutenant - Sudhir Goswami

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Flight Lieutenant - VV Tambe

Flight Lieutenant - Nagaswami Shankar

Flight Lieutenant - Ram M Advani

Flight Lieutenant - Manohar Purohit

Flight Lieutenant - Tanmay Singh Dandos

Flight Lieutenant - Babul Guha

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Flight Lieutenant - Suresh Chandra Sandal

Flight Lieutenant - Harvinder Singh

Flight Lieutenant - L M Sassoon

Flight Lieutenant - KPS Nanda

Flight Lieutenant - Ashok Dhawale

Flight Lieutenant - Shrikant Mahajan

Flight Lieutenant - Gurdev Singh Rai

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#DoYouKnow about Pallipadai (Memorial) Temple of Emperor Rajendra Chola I & his wife Veeramaadevi.

#Thread

This historically significant Chandramouleeswarar #Temple is in Brahmmadesam (Cheyyar) NearThiruvannamalai,TN

Restored by ASI.But no murthi,no worship & no festivals.

Treasure of inscriptions in walls of this temple belongs to Pallavas & Cholas period.About 77 valuable stone inscriptions are there in this temple that tells richness of the empire.Also mentions Rajendra Chola I died at Brahmadesam &it is recorded by his son Rajadhiraja Chola I

Initially this temple dedicated to Bhagwan Shiva was built in sand stone by Pallava King Vijaya Kampa Varman.Later it was converted to memorial temple in Chola period.Rajendra chola & his wife came to this place after his Ganges expedition but he suddenly he fell ill & died.

Rajendra chola I was one of the great emperor, he had powerful - mighty army ,naval force & had conquered many kingdoms in the Indian ocean.

Hope that we learn more about him & respect his memorial temple.Must Preserve and protect our temples.

All photos in this thread credit - to respective owners.
Source text - based on TamilNadu tourism blog and news article about this temple

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A #Thread on SKANDGUPTA VIKRAMADITYA - THE SAVIOUR OF INDIA
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भारत की मिट्टी में एक महान योद्धा स्कन्दगुप्त विक्रमादित्य का जन्म हुआ। जब संसार की सारी प्राचीन सभ्यताओं नें सबसे खूंखार और बर्बर हूणों के सामने घुटने टेक दिए तब हूणों के आतंक का विनाश करने यह महान् योद्धा ..

स्कन्दगुप्त निकल पड़े जिनका पराक्रम पूरे विश्व में अमर हुआ।
परमवीर स्कन्दगुप्त के महाप्रताप को जानने के लिए ये हूण कौन थे, कहां से आए थे और क्या चाहते थे इसको पहले समझना होगा।

हूण एक अमानुष बर्बर जाति के लोग थे जिन्होंने यूनान, मिस्र, ग्रीस और रोम को राख का ढ़ेर बना दिया था। ये इतने बर्बर थे कि बच्चों को चीर फाड़ कर, महिलाओं की दुर्दशा करके, फिर उनको जला कर, भून‌ कर खाते थे।

तीसरी और चौथी इसवी तक हूणों के अत्याचारों से सम्पूर्ण यूरोप थर्रा उठा था और देखते ही देखते समूचा रोमन साम्राज्य भी अतीत का हिस्सा बन गया। खूंखार हूण जब अट्टहास कर के जब रूस की ओर बढ़े तो वोल्गा नदी रूस के लोगों के रक्त से लाल हो उठी।

चीन और मंगोलिया के उत्तर पश्चिमी हिस्सों में जन्में बर्बर हूण प्रजाति की घुसपैठ से महाकाय चीन भी त्राहि त्राहि कर रहा था। हूण सबसे पहले बच्चों को निशाना बनाते थे ताकि अगली पीढ़ी नष्ट हो जाए इसके बाद वो महिलाओं को उठा ले जाते थे और पुरुषों को तड़पा तड़पा कर मारते थे। ..

Sri Ooraga Perumal (aka) Ooragathan, at Sri Ulagalandha Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram, TN.
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Thiru Ooragam:
God Shriman Narayana, our Emperuman, has manifested in the shape of Adhiseshan, the 5 headed snake in this temple.

He is found in a seperate sannidhi next to Ulagalandha Perumal in Thiru Ooragam.
Ooragam' (reptile) signifies Snake and God Vishnu gave darshan to Mahabali as the Serpent God here.

Mahabali Chakravarthy, the grandson of Prahaladhan, did a very large yagam (or) homam to get the Devendra logam, which is called “Swargham”.

But, that lokam belongs to Indiran, who is the King of that Lokam.
Being a top-notch devotee of Sriman Narayanan, he was capitulated by means of temptation and decided to acquire the Devendra Lokam.

To make him understand and punish him, Sriman Narayanan took the Vaamana avatar (dwarf) and requested 3 feet of his land.

A thread on teaching live lessons using @MicrosoftTeams Meet Now function where students follow their normal timetable except online - will go into more detail on every point in a blog post later. Have used Teams for live teaching have supported over 100 live lessons since March

1. If you are using the desktop app, check you have the latest version of Teams so that you should have Breakout rooms enabled. Check by clicking your profile picture, then About - I have version 1.3.00.28779. If you have 1.2..., click on check for updates to get the latest

2. Set your entry routine. I get my students to enter with their microphone muted - you can also not allow attendees to unmute by opening the participants list, clicking the ellipsis and selecting that option.

3. Make sure students arrive as attendees - some organisations have this set up to automatically happen that only meeting organizer is the presenter and others are attendees. Can change this in the manage permissions menu to only me if not already set (opens in a web browser).

4. Classroom routine and expectations - first lesson I share my screen and show the students the raise hand function for when they want to ask questions, how to access the chat function and how to react to questions as opposed to typing answers

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#Mahabhashiam #GovindaBhagavatpada #AdiShankara

Adi Shankara's guru was Govinda Bhagavatpada who in turn was a shishya of Sree Gaudapadacharya. Interestingly, his story is connected to Mahabhashiam by Patanjali and his 4 sons are prodigies in their own right.

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Sage Patanjali was very kind at heart, but extremely short tempered. After composing the colossal Mahabhashiam, he started to spread the knowledge by conducting classes.

Once, one of his students stepped out of class. Patanjali was very furious & flames came out of his eyes.

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The flames burnt all 999 students in the class. The student who stepped out came in and said, "Gurudeva, don't worry. I am alive. I can propogate the knowledge of Mahabhashiam"

Patanjali was furious that because of him he lost others & landed up burning him down too

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There was a Gandharva who comes & says, "Master, I have learnt the Mahabhashiam from the nearby Peepal tree. I can help spread the knowledge"

Patanjali was livid and anger and curses him that he has cheated and hence, should become Brahmarakshasa.

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Gandharva begs for forgiveness. Patanjali says that he will meet a befitting student to whom he should teach Mahaabhashiam. Once the student learns, he will be rid of curse

Brahmarakshasa starts to pose questions to passing by Brahmins. When they dont answer, he eats them

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श्री राम की माता कौशल्या का इकलौता मंदिर
#Thread
रायपुर से तकरीबन 25 किलोमीटर दूर चंदखुरी गांव है। 126 तालाब वाले इस गांव में सात तालाबों से घिरे जलसेन तालाब के बीच प्राचीन द्वीप पर भगवान श्रीराम की माता कौशल्या की प्रतिमा स्थापित है और रामलला उनकी गोद में विराजमान हैं।

यहीं की थीं माता कौशल्या
स्थानीय लोगों की आस्था है कि चंदखुरी ही माता कौशल्या की जन्मस्थली है। मंदिर के पुजारी बताते हैं कि एक ही पत्थर में उभरी माता कौशल्या व भगवान श्रीराम की प्रतिमा गांव के जलसेन तालाब से ही प्राप्त हुई थी, जो आठवीं शताब्दी की है।

द्वीप पर स्थित कौशल्या माता का मंदिर हरियाली और मंदिरों से घिरा हुआ है। भगवान शिव और नंदी की विशाला प्रतिमा यहां स्थित है। द्वीप के द्वार पर हनुमान जी विराजमान हैं। दशरथ जी का दरबार यहां लगा है। मन्नत का एक पेड़ भी यहां स्थित है। सुषेण वैद्य की समाधी है।

माता कौशल्या के पिता सुकौशल थे, जिन्हें स्थानीय निवासी भानुमंत राजा के नाम से जानते हैं। छत्तीसगढ़ को पहले कौशल प्रदेश के नाम से जाना जाता था। वहीं माता सुबाला/अमृतप्रभा थीं। रामचरित मानस व वाल्मिकी रामायण में भी कौशल प्रदेश का उल्लेख मिलता है।

मंदिर परिसर में ही सीताफल का एक पेड़ है, जहां पर्ची में नाम लिखकर उसे श्रीफल के संग बांधा जाता है। कहा जाता है कि ऐसा कर मांगी गई मन्नत पूरी होती है। असल में जहां पेड़ है, उस स्थान पर पहले नागराज की बड़ी बाम्बी हुआ करती थी और मान्यता है कि मन्नत नागराज ही पूरी करते हैं।

KRISHNA ELLA - THE MAN BEHIND COVAXIN

This whole article is written by Dev Kumar Sir.

On the border between Tamilnadu and erstwhile Andhra , lies the temple town of Thiruthani, one of the six famed abodes of Lord Muruga. Krishnamurthy Ella was born in 1969,

in an agricultural family to middle class parents. No one could have imagined his trajectory.

Perhaps because of his background, Krishna wanted to study agriculture. His father wasn’t pleased - he told his son “Nobody becomes a farmer by just studying agriculture” .

Unfazed, Krishna joined University of Agricultural sciences in Bangalore. His passion and hardwork earned him a gold medal. Unlike “ordinary” gold medalists, he wasn’t content to get a job.

Nevertheless he supported himself after undergrad by working briefly in the agricultural division of Bayer Pharma. He longed for more. He got a rotary scholarship which enabled him to move to the US, to do his PhD in University of Wisconsin.

The scholarship was the wind under his wings. There was no looking back.

His speciality was molecular biology.

While in the US, he met Suchitra, an economics graduate and married her.

Average Indians in US would dream of a green card for themselves.

The evils committed by Ravi Zacharias were enabled by a toxic organizational leadership that is evidenced by how these same leaders responded when confronted about the widespread and ongoing abuses being perpetrated by the namesake of the institution. 1/29

Please take time to read this piece by @DavideAFrench and the 26-page letter written by a first-hand witness. Here are just some of the excerpts: 2/29

"At one point, Ravi suggested to me that the Task Force “issue a statement that they [the Thompsons] are hooligans, they are scoundrels, they are thugs, they are serial extortioners.” If we didn’t do that, he told me, he would ask his attorney to do so on his behalf." 3/29

"...I distinctly recall Ravi & Sanj mocking the Thompsons’ marriage & scornfully predicting how soon Brad & Lori Anne would get divorced. “I predict their marriage won’t survive the year,” Ravi asserted with laughter. “A year?” replied Sanj. “I wouldn’t give it six months!” 4/29

"In 2017, in the early stages of his RICO against the Thompsons, Ravi would often invoke Kelly [his attorney], making statements such as “my attorney said we are going to crush them.”" 5/29

जनपदोध्वंस (Pandemic).

धर्म एव हतो हन्ति (जो पुरूष धर्म का नाश करता है, उसी का नाश धर्म कर देता है)

Why do we always have to learn it the hard way?

Charak Samhita (of Ayurveda) has a whole chapter on जनपदोध्वंस (pandemic).

Shloka 3.6 describes the cause of जनपदोध्वंस as अधर्मः (Adharma). It says where basic elements like earth, water, air are polluted, seasons do not follow the correct timings, living beings are killed mercilessly, good conduct has vanished, where there’s exploitation of forces of

nature, where this is curse (because of agony of living beings) जनपदोध्वंस is inevitable.

We are satisfying not one but all the conditions. Ground-water, crops-land, rivers, air we breath everything is polluted. Climate change is prevalent because of green house gases.

Animals are reproduced artificially and killed in millions every day and that too with the most cruel way possible.

Towards the end of the story of Mahabharata (महाभारत), Veda Vyasa (व्यास) through the five slokas known as the "Bharatasavitri" (भारत सवीत्री) emphasizes

as to how important the quality of righteousness is to both the human life and the society and that if righteousness is abandoned and unrighteousness supported, not only is the entire clan ruined but it also causes a great deal of harm to the society.

Thread on best books + readers to learn Sanskrit. I will list only books I have read & their pros and cons.

1. Samskrita Bharati (4 Part Series)

This is by far the best structured english course to learn to read, speak & write Sanskrit. The material is well-structured.

... and grammar is introduced at apt phases. There is enough Sanskrit text to immerse yourself & best part is they have accompanying online/in-person courses entirely in Sanskrit. This is the best method to learn spoken Sanskrit.

2. Svayam Sanskrit Shikshak (Hindi)

This is the second best immersive-learning series. There are 2 parts and progression is gradual. The advantage is it is entirely in Hindi, so the 1:1 syntax + vocab connect for native speakers is instant, Hindi being a daughter of Sanskrit.

this however is also it's only disadvantange. It's language restricted & not suitable for say a Telugu with poor Hindi or for an American or European learner. There is enough reading material here to "learn" Sanskrit.

3. The Sanskrit Language – Walter H Maurer

This is an amazing course. The best to learn Sanskrit for Americans/Europeans & an excellent one for Indians to use to learn the western grammar terminology. Best part about it? It is extremley long & has at least 100 pages of Sanskrit.

A thread on Wallelign Mekonnen’s 1969 essay “On the Question of Nationalities in Ethiopia” - which catalyzed the student movement that overthrew Ethiopia’s Solomonic dynasty in 1974 (Wallelign was killed in 1972 while hijacking an Ethiopian airlines plane) https://t.co/Ol0ElagLJq

Wallelign wrote that, while some call the question of nationalities "tribalism" - it is in fact "nationalism." Ethiopia is not one nation, he wrote, “it is made up of a dozen nationalities with their own languages, ways of dressing, social organization and territorial entity.”

Culture is nothing more than the superstructure of an economic basis that presupposes subjugation of the peasantry and proletariat. To be a “genuine Ethiopian” one has to speak Amharic and adhere to their culture. One must “wear an Amhara mask”- to use Frantz Fanon's terminology.

A common refute to the Neftegna system, whereby Abyssinian elites took lands from southern peoples, was that there are Amhara and Tigray masses in poverty. Another centred on representational politics. In reality, the feudal system oppressed all, but some groups more than others.

While Abyssinians are not dominant because of inherent imperialist tendencies, this is no excuse to perpetuate this situation. The only way forward is a state where every nationality is given equal opportunity to preserve and develop its language, culture and self-administration.