Wednesday, September 23, 2015

technology of spirituality

Again…..whatsapp forward!

This time about the knowledge (!) of indian ancestors!! Here it goes….

ooh man…this guy seems to make really serious claims!


When I received this video as a forward in a whatsapp, I responded with a simple answer. Of course, the group with exemplary herd mentality is certainly not the one with inquisitive minds or knowledgeable people to question the validity of the claims raised by the presenter.

So I responded with a simple analogy which can be easily understood by even weakest(ok...simplest, if not simpletons) minds, to compare and to make sense of those exaggerated claims.

“If I were a good painter, I would paint an image of Buddha holding an iphone.
Now that would be awesome if apple inc., claims it manufactured iphones in BC.600s.
Conversely some people may even make a claim- buddhists used iphones 2000yrs back!! J
(You want to place that iphone in tutankhamun’s tomb, making iphone more than 3500yrs old?!)
Earth is shown GLOBULAR…doubt is, WHEN THAT image was drawn?! Were that drawn 10000yrs ago, sure that is admirable.but if drawn recently…with the recent scientific knowledge, then there’s nothing great abt it.further the speaker’s claim will be negated.”

(It is a different matter; one of my friends even said that it was like throwing pearls in front swines. L he said, I could not turn donkeys into horses by reasoning with them!!!! mhmh...a wise man!)

And recently, almost after a six months’ gap of receiving that video first time, it reached me the second time. This time it was forwarded by a friend who is very very good at technologies. Since he always had acumen about technological advances, it came as a surprise for me when I received the same stupid-video from such a brilliant fellow.

A video with non-sensical, ridiculous claims attributing scientific inventions to religious myths. Thereby attempting to give life to those dead, unbelievable stories….attempting to give some credibility to religious dogmas, claiming all the developments in science had been made a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg back through religious practices.

This time, I thought, I shall give it a bit of attention bringing it to the blog, since this was forwarded by a tech savvy friend. Now I had to add a little more to the above statements…

“Curse of our society is….even the so-cald highly educated DO NOT seem to HAVE ANALYTICAL approach towards everything….ESP religious matters are approached with all senses numbed. That quote of tom paine….common sense is not so common still holds good even after 4 centuries. J
But yes….no denying the fact that presented is indeed funny…”

searched on net and found this…
a complete rebuttal, point by point…..
thanks to the uploader.


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