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  1. Stuti
    May 18, 2011 at 1:04 AM | #1
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    Sir,

    I have one request Sir. Sir, I am looking for the 1947-2011 data vis-a-vis the Indian States’ GDP, Literacy rates, Inflation, Birth/Death rates etc. Requesting you to kindly suggest where can I get this data from, please.

    Thanks.

    Sincere regards,
    Stuti.

    • knight
      May 18, 2011 at 9:03 AM | #2
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      The GDP rates should be findable through one of the links I’ve provided in the articles. As for the birth and death rates, it is probably dismal, because India is poor and corrupt. But this is an article on India’s economy, not it’s languages and health, which can easily be learned about through a search engine like Google. I already strayed by mentioning the treatment of the Dalits by non-Dalit Indians.

      There is a little information about the literacy rate here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India

      I imagine that because India is populated with large groups of people that speak substantially different languages (which makes it less efficient for leaders of India to get their suggestions and rules communicated and easier for people to speak “behind the backs” of those leaders without it being realized if they are going against the will of those leaders) and because India’s people they worship many shallow false gods or are divided by their worship of some specific false god out of many false gods, with stupid religious dietary and travel rules for their followers (which are really the stupid rules of men), that India remains in the dark. Other examples of how polytheistic religions keep people from advancing in wisdom and knowledge are the Mormons, who believe that there are many gods and that there will be an infinite increase in gods who, because of their stupid rules and beliefs, can’t believe what is logical and true, and so mostly, end up using modern technology, like the Indians, simply to spread to their stupid beliefs. It’s as if they were living viruses, using the good to spread the bag. Another example is Haiti. An opposite extreme also leads to stagnation and reversing, which is atheism, which leads to the worship of men, like in North Korea, China, and Cuba, and they too have many problems. However China has a large Christian population, which I guess is about 130 million by now, some of which are Catholics (who are polytheists, worshiping many so called “saints”) and Christianity helps people to become wiser, but them more impure the religion, the less helpful, and there are various types of Christian types of religion, some better than others. China has been influenced by Christianity for a long time, which the Chinese government rigorously tries to control (which would naturally force them to study the Bible in order to manipulate it effectively, but which have a side-effect of influencing whoever is trying to do the twisting to at least give the appearance of being good), and by doing this, the Chinese government is unknowingly helping to secure and spread Christianity.

      Here are two language maps http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/overview/languages/himal1992max.jpg

      http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~vemuri/classes/freshman/language-families.bmp

      If India wants to improve, it should decide on one national language, which I advise should be English, while studying Sanskrit as a second language so that they don’t feel like immigrants in their own country, and are still able to learn about their past with ease, while being able to smoothly progress with the rest of the world in understanding and knowledge.

  2. Bill
    March 4, 2012 at 6:41 PM | #3
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    Just read your piece on Sunyata from last year. I can understand why it read like nonsense to you and I’m not sure why someone asked you to read it. If you had a firm and long history of meditation you would realize that sunyata (that things are connected and not separate) is the essential nature of reality, but without practice this is impossible to understand. The writer is not a charlatan, but someone who has seen something profound. I understand everything that was written, but it is a nonconceptual knowledge and irrelevant to the person who has not had the same insights. And there is nothing wrong with desiring to obey God, but when God is merely a way for a person to tether their identity to beliefs, they are not worshipping God but their own desires and fears. This is the majority of pious members of all faiths, including Buddhism. Perhaps one way to understand what the writer is pointing towards would be to examine what your experience is when you’re not labeling reality and just experiencing it. Be well and God bless.

    • knight
      March 4, 2012 at 11:23 PM | #4
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      “Just read your piece on Sunyata from last year.

      And didn’t understand it according to your comment below even though what I said was utterly plain language, unlike the narcissistic rant I quoted.

      “I can understand why it read like nonsense to you”

      Why would you have to guess as that sentence implies, when I simply explained? You sound very arrogant, Mr. “Bill”

      “and I’m not sure why someone asked you to read it.”

      You committed the fallacy of assumption right there. You’re not off to a good start. Who told you someone asked me to read it and WHY would that matter either? Why are you Buddhists always assuming and bringing up things that don’t matter when talking about a subject like your own religion?

      “If you had a firm and long history of meditation you would realize that sunyata (that things are connected and not separate) is the essential nature of reality,” but without practice this is impossible to understand.”

      Because you said so (begging the question fallacy). And Bill, you committed a third fallacy: vagueness. “Meditation” means more than one thing so in the sentence you used it it can’t be clearly understood, which is typical of Buddhists. You committed another fallacy: assuming. Who said I’ve never sat pondering something for long? Did you notice I did that for this teaching on Sunyata? Do you think that writing articles like these or the over 680 on my journal is merely hitting keyboard buttons very fast without thinking? No, that’s more like what you did here.

      “The writer is not a charlatan, but someone who has seen something profound.”

      Because you said so and whatever you say is true cuz u said so, no wait because you meditated. Not very profound. What is profound is my ability to unravel Hellishly confusing arrogant nonsense from people like yourself who think shallow nonsense is deep and questioning it and exposing it as false is nothing. You’ve got everything backwards.

      “I understand everything that was written,”

      No, you don’t. You’re a deluded babbler who wasted my time with mere claims. And you seem to have narcissism disorder to make such a childish and arrogant statement being that the questions I posed to this false teacher make it clear he is someone who babbles like you.

      “but it is a nonconceptual knowledge and irrelevant to the person who has not had the same insights.”

      …which made no sense and is another mere claim. Stop acting like you are God, and twisting who God is. Unlike you, God doesn’t just make mere claims; with evidence he proves his claims. There is no such thing as “non conceptual knowledge” because all knowledge conceived. You’re babbling, Bill.

      “And there is nothing wrong with desiring to obey God,”

      You as a Buddhist don’t believe in God, so that statement is nonsensical and hypocritical. You might as well have said, “There is nothing wrong with obeying a lie that teaches to kill those who don’t obey him when he commands them too.” Do you seriously want me to believe you’d let me kill you if I believe God told me to? If so. good for you.

      “but when God is merely a way for a person to tether their identity to beliefs, they are not worshipping God but their own desires and fears.”

      Told you: hypocrisy and nonsense. You said God exists, but then cancelled out that possibility. If you had said, “a real God” that would have made sense. You also committed the fallacy of begging the question: why did you bring that up? It proves nothing and is evidence for nothing. It’s also a nonsensical statement: “when God is merely a way for a person to tether their identity to beliefs” is meaningless. It’s like saying, “When eating apples is merely a way for you to tie your personality to your shoe laces that’s not eating apples but your own desires and fears.” That’s what the Wikipedia Cult calls “word salad”. A mixed up bunch of fancy-sounding words is what you used, to make yourself sound wise, but you aren’t. You ranted. You might have narcissism disorder. You can read about that here: http://narcissism.tk

      “This is the majority of pious members of all faiths, including Buddhism.” This is a grammatically nonsensical statement: WHAT, is the majority? Do you mean worshiping their desires and fears? And since when to people worship their desires and fears who are mostly “the pious”? And how do you know it’s the majority? And are you implying that the majority of non-pious non-faith-having people are true worshipers of God, because why else would you single out “the pious of all faiths” whatever that means? Why can’t you speak plainly? Is it really that hard for you to say, “religion” rather than “faith” as if religion was merely something not based on any evidence? Because if not based on any evidence, than you trying to prove or defending Buddhism is profound and true, is vain and hypocritical. Do you realize that pious means, “righteously showing a reverence for God”? Do you know that “righteous” means “proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice”. Now why would the majority of moral and just people who “revere” God mostly be revering their own desires and fears? You contradicted yourself and spoke nonsensically. MORAL and JUST people who WORSHIP GOD, do not IMMORALITY WORSHIP THEIR OWN DESIRES AND FEARS. And no one worships their own desires their desires and fears, that’s as stupid as saying, “People worship their worshiping of idols,” no, they worship THE IDOL, not THE ACT of worshiping the idol. You are very confused and confusing.

      “Perhaps”

      Use of words like that in the context of a rant like yours is indicative of a narcissist or a very arrogant and/or deluded person. You’re ranting and that’s as much of my time as I’ll allow you to waste. Stop committing the fallacies I pointed out, and humble yourself. God saves the humble, not the arrogant. May God humble you so that you an be saved.

      Be mentally well and may the real God bless you, because a fat glutton with narcissism disorder who died thousands of years ago cannot.

  3. knight
    October 21, 2010 at 2:36 PM | #5
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    To sammi who with it’s first sentence replied, “Either you are bragging about leading ‘over 100 people to christ’ (sinning in pride), or just plain lying.” Cuz you said so and whatever you say is true because you said so. Bye circular idiot. And why did you put “The Truth” as your name? So calling yourself what God claims to be, makes you right huh, makes you the truth? What an evil arrogant blasphemer. And super moron: Why would I either be bragging or lying (and not both) but not telling the truth to make a point? So resumes are bragging or lying? So saying what you’ve done is always lying or bragging? Well then you must be a liar and braggart. Fool: stop taking those who do good out of context you childish idiot, get a life and stop ranting you self-defeating fault-finder.

    The rest of your childish rant goes unread, since my time is valuable unlike yours, who deliberately wastes it in bitterness.

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